ABSTRACT
Having set the stage for Conservation of Information, I need now to fill in some details. As a backdrop for explaining Conservation of Information, I will focus on evolutionary biology (and by extension on evolutionary computing), trusting that as Conservation of Information’s relevance to biology becomes clear, its scope and applicability for the rest of the natural sciences will be that much more readily accepted and acceptable. As it is, most biological configuration spaces for evolution are so large and the targets they present are so small that blind search is highly unlikely to succeed (blind search, on materialist principles, ultimately reduces to the jostling of life’s molecular constituents through forces of attraction and repulsion; genetic mutation would be a consequence of such jostling).
