Matsuno K
Orig Life. 1984;14(1-4):489-96. doi: 10.1007/BF00933696.
Biological information refers to the process of how matter informs matter through endogenous boundary conditions, exhibiting a sharp contrast to Shannon's information referring to the process of how coded messages inform a human receiver or observer. The origin and evolution of protobiological and biological information occur because prior polymeric products successively provide new boundary conditions to the subsequent production process. The transition from what looks like inanimate matter to living beings is a continuous process. The underlying mechanism is the physical process that prior products provide new boundary conditions to the subsequent production process in a successive manner. Biological information resides in perpetuating cellular production process which eventually leads to an enhancement of evolutionary specificity. Cellular units are prerequisite to biological evolution, not vice versa.
生物信息是指物质如何通过内源性边界条件相互传递信息的过程，这与香农信息形成鲜明对比，香农信息指的是编码信息如何传递给人类接收者或观察者的过程。原生生物信息和生物信息的起源与演化之所以发生，是因为先前的聚合物产物相继为后续的生产过程提供了新的边界条件。从看似无生命的物质到生物的转变是一个连续的过程。其潜在机制是这样一个物理过程：先前的产物以连续的方式为后续的生产过程提供新的边界条件。生物信息存在于使细胞生产过程得以延续之中，而这最终会导致进化特异性的增强。细胞单元是生物进化的前提条件，而非相反。
