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jodrellblanktoday at 4:41 PM1 replyview on HN

> “You can't fix information that doesn't exist anymore.

Assuming there’s no Deity or similar outside power seeding the initial system with information that can only be lost and never gained, then any information in the evolutionary system got there by some process that happened once, and presumably can happen again and fix (rediscover) the lost information?


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bob1029today at 9:49 PM

The first law of thermodynamics has a pretty strong take on this one.