Programming of Life, by Donald E. Johnson
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This is an updated version of the paperback with some new information. "This is currently the best book covering the relationship between genome and computer architectures." - JOHNATHAN BARTLETT, Author / Publisher / Speaker / Director of Technology ----- This book highlights the informational aspects of life that are generally overlooked or ignored in chemical and biological evolutionary scenarios. Each cell of an organism has millions of interacting computers reading and processing digital information, using digital programs and digital codes to communicate and translate information. Life is an intersection of physical science and information science. Both domains are critical for any life to exist, and each must be investigated using that domain's principles. Yet most scientists have been attempting to use physical science to explain life's information domain, a practice which has no scientific justification. -- As you can tell by the preceding words this research is a fascinating approach to the question of the origin of life. - (PUBLISHER) ----- "Programming of Life is an excellent freshman level review of the formal programming, coding/decoding, integration, organization, Prescriptive Information (PI), memory, regulation and control required for a physical object to find itself 'alive.' DONALD E. JOHNSON is uniquely qualified to unpackage the strong parallels between everyday cybernetic design and engineering and the workings of the cell. I highly recommend this book." -DAVID L. ABEL, Director, The Gene Emergence Project Department of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics The Origin of Life Science Foundation, Inc.
Programming of Life, by Donald E. Johnson- Amazon Sales Rank: #1596301 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .38" w x 5.98" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 136 pages
From the Author This book expands the information and its processing that was introduced in the "Probabilitiy's Nature and Nature's Probability" books (scientist and "Lite" versions). No proposed scenario so far has dealt in a feasible manner with this critical topic. The non-material reality of information is stressed, especially with respect to instantiated algorithms, controls, and symbolic codes. The book stresses an information science perspective, taking no stance on philosophical or theological issues that could be envisioned.
About the Author DR. DON JOHNSON has earned Ph.D.s in both Computer & Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota and in Chemistry from Michigan State University. He was a senior research scientist for 10 years in pharmaceutical and medical / scientific instrument fields, served as president and technical expert in an independent computer consulting firm for many years, and taught for 20 years in universities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, and Europe. He now maintains scienceintegrity.net to expose unsubstantiated claims in science and has made presentations on most continents. He also maintains "djpol.info" site for books on life's information and links to on-line videos (awesome professionally-produced video as well as presentations).
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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful. The Programming of Life book is excellent! By Algorithm The Programming of Life by Donald E. Johnson is an excellent presentation of the parallels between the everyday practical cybernetics of computer science and the programming, control and regulation mechanisms of cellular life. The book is easily understandable by non biologists, and seems to be written on a college freshman level. It has good illustrations. It also has extensive citations and quotes from peer-reviewed literature. It's perspective and content are well supported, and should be readily received by a properly skeptical scientific community (of which I am a member). The book is a fun, quick, interesting read of under 150 pages. In my opinion, the book is amazingly underpriced for what it provides. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It provides a unique education that I have never seen available from any source other than technical scientific literature, but it is wonderfully explained in lay terms. This would be a great mini text for public high school AP Biology classes.
31 of 38 people found the following review helpful. Bringing Life Sciences Into the Twenty-First Century By Morris Hedge This book addresses head on an issue which has been retarding understanding of life--failure to adequately consider its information processing aspects. After reading this book it will become clear why this failure must be corrected. One very critical reason is to put medical science on a more sure-footed path, one which more readily corresponds to reality; for example, the author points out that all human organs previously thought to be vestigial are now known to have functions--at the molecular level this means there is no "junk DNA".This book is very readable for anyone with a modest mathematics or science or computer science background to include, of course, computer programming. The light will really shine as the reader comprehends these topics as operating in profound ways at the lowest level of life. It made me wonder how such purposeful, directed information came to be in the very first cell, at the origin of all life.The book is replete with attributed quotes, references, and appendices expanding upon difficult topics introduced in the text. I believe it should be on the shelf of all scientists and mathematicians.
32 of 40 people found the following review helpful. Prescribed Reading On Prescriptive Information By Robert A. Deyes There are some science writers that quite simply have a knack for combining the detail of their subject of expertise with a talent for exposition that a wide audience can easily understand. Donald Johnson is one of them. After carefully defining the various types of information- functional, prescriptive and Shannon- that information theorists have set out in their realm of study, Johnson takes the reader on a tour of cellular gene expression by focusing on the digital code of DNA. Shannon information, which provides a mathematical measure of improbability without regard to functionality does not help us in the description of life since the digital code of DNA is rich in what Johnson terms "functional prescriptive information".While initiatives such as the Origin Of Life Prize have encouraged researchers to find non-super-naturalistic processes that might explain the origins of prescriptive information, no offerings to-date have withstood the test of scientific scrutiny. Indeed all known cases of such information invariably point to the work of a mind. Johnson emphasizes the relevance of probability in his espousal of this inference- the simplest form of life was found to be 10exp80,000 times more likely of having a mindful than a non-mindful source.Johnson repeatedly stresses how the information content of DNA is analogous to the information carried on a computer disk drive.Within such a schema, each of the enzymes that decode the information can be seen as individual computers that bring `meaning' to the code through the RNA that is transcribed and the proteins that are translated. 23,000 genes make up the human genome. And the multi-functional nature of these genes in self evident in the way that RNAs are differentially spliced and glued together.Johnson's perspective packs a might punch on the evolutionary edifice. Computer simulations and evolutionary algorithms such as MeThinksItIsLikeAWeasel and AVIDA have failed to show how evolution can generate prescriptive information since pre-specified targets, unrealistic protection of replication instructions and unrealistic energy rewards abound in each of these systems.While the battle over the categorization of junk DNA rages on amongst biologists, Johnson gives us a succinct and well-buttressed view on the subject: "Researchers are discovering that what has been dismissed as evolution's relics are actually vital for life". There is no evidence that new prescriptive information can be built up by genetic rearrangements such as transposition, inversion, duplication or point mutation. We can therefore understand Lynn Margulis' reference to the Darwinian claim as a `half truth' grounded in religious ferocity. This half truth forms the foundation for Johnson's final attack as he considers the merits of irreducible complexity and Craig Venter's recently produced artificial genome. Rather than showing how an organism could arise from scratch, Venter's enterprising achievement revealed the need for careful engineering of existing parts into a form that could be introduced into an existing organism.Johnson's writing style is captivating. The extensive range of resources he draws from only serves to build confidence in the factual accuracy of his case. What a terrific read. Sheer brilliance.
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