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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Exploring Functional Information and Its Implications

This chapter explores the definition and significance of functional information in physical and biological systems. It emphasizes a proposed law of increasing functional information and the need for empirical testing to validate its application across diverse natural processes.

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