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I'm not sure defining requirements by analogy is a valid process.


I do not understand what you have meant by "analogy".

The 3 requirements that I have listed do not contain any analogy, they just give a precise expression of the conventional meaning of the words "genetic material" as applied to a component of the living beings, now known to consist of nucleic acids for the life on Earth.

While not all biologists would be able to define precisely what they mean by "genetic material", the listed requirements correspond to the actual use of the word, in the most general sense.


The actual requirements you listed were beyond my point. You said:

> "Genetic material" is memory. Therefore it must have the following properties:

A more precise wording of my understanding of this line would be:

> "Genetic material" is loosely analogous to memory. Therefore, we can derive what properties it has in physical reality by declaring what properties memory must logically have.

This makes it clearer what I was disagreeing with, I hope.




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