266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology

This podcast episode explores the groundbreaking work of Claude Shannon on information theory and its applications in various fields. The episode covers the relationship between information and entropy, the subjective and contextual nature of information, the relevance of information theory in biology, the connection between Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and information theory, and the concept of evolution as a creative force. It also delves into the concept of information content within genomes and addresses the paradox of genome size, as well as the role of RNA in the origin of life. The episode concludes by drawing parallels between the origin of life and the development of human intelligence as a capacity for manipulating information.