# Side Comments: Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?

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**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/side-comments-is-there-really-information-being-conveyed-within-a-cell/17036 "2025-02-06T17:22:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giltil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Giltil](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Giltil)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/side-comments-is-there-really-information-being-conveyed-within-a-cell/17036/180 "2025-03-14T07:33:44Z")

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> [@Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-there-really-information-being-conveyed-within-a-cell/16951/506):
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> > [@Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-there-really-information-being-conveyed-within-a-cell/16951/506):
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> > > [@Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-there-really-information-being-conveyed-within-a-cell/16951/493):
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> > > My claim is that all functional digital information, which requires elements (dots/dashes, bits, nucleobases) of a coding system to be put into functional sequences, requires intelligence to do so.
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> > As @Rumraket points out, of course, this is contrary to what we know to be true, so that’s a bit of a problem.
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> Now, anyone who more or less understands words would grasp that the one in no way resembles the other; that nobody could possibly read what I did say and derive this bizarre meaning from it that you do.

In a nutshell, what you’ve claimed is that saying that systems such as the genetic code require an intelligence is contrary to what we know to be true. Well, from this, how are we not allowed to conclude that you’ve asserted we know that no intelligence was involved in the genetic code?

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