There are some core truths in the paper The information theory of individuality [1] but it feels like some important ingredients have been discarded; maybe I ju

There are some core truths in the paper The information theory of individuality [1] but it feels like some important ingredients have been discarded; maybe I just need to spend some more time with the ideas. From a software perspective, it is equivalent to a shift in focus on an object instance but discarding the concept of the class along the way. I like focusing on the temporal aspects rather than snapshots in time. I like the concept of nesting since it nicely encompasses the role of mitochondria. I like the concept of continuous individuality as applied to cell colonies and eusocial insect colonies. Information theory certainly should be applied to DNA/RNA mechanisms. It feels like the theorists are dancing around our inability to describe emergent systems properly. Perhaps an information theory centric approach should be applied to describing emergent systems. Such an approach may indirectly describe the strange edge cases in biology that are made up a multitude of emergent systems. [1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12064-020-00313-7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12064-020-00313-7