Richard Dawkins and I discuss the 1953 discovery that life is digital at its very core! We discuss exactly what this means, how this impacts the concept of vitalism, and how this digital information system may have evolved.

Here are links to Dawkins' books we discussed:
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life https://smile.amazon.com/RiverOutEd...
The Extended Phenotype https://smile.amazon.com/ExtendedPhe...
The Ancestors Tale https://smile.amazon.com/AncestorsTa...
The Selfish Gene https://smile.amazon.com/SelfishGene...

Videos where you can learn more:
The RNA World Hypothesis    • What Is the RNA World Hypothesis?  
Dr. David Fialho explains information in the cell    • Information at the Origin of Life: Dr...  

Claud Shannon's paper on information theory: http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/h...

Here are timestamps to specific parts of our conversation:

00:00:00 Richard Dawkins' impact on Stated Clearly
00:02:02 The clear teaching of Charles Darwin
00:02:33 The final killing blow to vitalism
00:07:38 The significance of Watson and Crick to Jon Perry
00:08:58 The Genetic Code is Digital
00:10:40 Computer Code compared to the Genetic Code
00:18:40 Claud Shannon and information theory applied to biology
00:24:45 How does functional information evolve?
00:32:57 Richard Dawkins studied bird communication
00:42:37 Life is an explosion of information
00:46:17 How to fight the darker side of science


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