This article seems to be a jumble of ideas: information vs "semantic information", heredity vs environment, epigenetics, Shannon's information theory, and infor

This article seems to be a jumble of ideas: information vs "semantic information", heredity vs environment, epigenetics, Shannon's information theory, and information as a metaphor. After reading this article a couple times, I still can't get a coherent point from it. That said, epigenetics is obviously a hugely important area. Although coming from a computer background, I think biology needs to look at "state" in total - how an organism holds informational state over widely diverging time scales. (For instance, look at the brain and consider the many ways it holds information, from genes to gene expression to neuron wiring.)