It is probably one of the most deeply dividing issues of modern science [то есть вопрос, является ли передача информации в биологическом контексте реальным феноменом или лишь метафорой --
mns2012]. Many biologists are convinced that biological information is a real and fundamental component of life, but physicalists insist that it is only a metaphorical concept and that there is nothing fundamental about it because it is not a physical quantity. The purpose of this paper is to show that the physicalist thesis would be true if genes and proteins were made by spontaneous assemblies, like all inorganic molecules, but they are not. 