2.14 Origin of Information

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Origin of Information

Information originates via processes of adaptive selection both in logical hierarchies (learning and experimentation) and in implementation hierarchy (via natural selection or engineering design, depending on context).
In the biological case, this process takes place contextually through adaptation to the physical, ecological, and social environment.
This is a multi-level process, with higher level needs driving lower level selection.

Adaptive Selection

Adaptive selection is an emergent biological process that acts at all levels: groups, organisms, systems, cells, interaction networks, genes, and molecules
Adaptive selection is based in physical processes, but is not itself a physical law; it is an essentially biological effect.
Adaptive selection is not directly implied by, or deducible from, the equations of the standard model of particle physics.
Adaptive selection is a top-down process that adapts animals to their environment by altering their DNA, transferring information from the environment to the collective genome of the species.