My September 2016 column for the Intergalactic Medicine Show is a short history of the idea of information as particles, both in biology (genes) and in human thought and culture (memes). It does not directly address Shannon's information theory and how that ties in with thermodynamics and computational evolutionary biology, though that's pretty interesting stuff, too.
Collective Consciousness WiP by Erevis
PlotBot is a monthly column that explores scientific ideas that I think are under-used in science fiction, or which are used in boringly traditional ways. I link to them here rather than reposting them because I want to drive traffic to their site.
Interesting - computational evolutionary biology looks pretty cool! You should post stuff in my reddit group - it's very related
https://www.reddit.com/r/simulate
I'm not actually on reddit, but feel free to use any of the stuff I post here.
@plotbot2015 I hopped over to IGMS . Very interesting and exciting stuff! Would really like to keep in touch with you. perhaps touch base at steemit.chat ?
@coinbitgold Sure, if I can figure out how to use it. Specific time that's best?
I tihnk you just need to register using an email address. i am there most of the time :-)