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I think one would have to use a very liberal definition of mutation. #1 is not a "bit flip" due to a copying error or a cosmic ray.
So what exactly are you describing then as '... an ability for an organism to react to pressures' ??, bc as i understand it and in the context of this conversation, we're talking about 'evolutionary development' , ie dna 'mutation or change' , are you now only actually meaning 'adaptation' (which is already hard-coded at the cellular level) , which isn't a dna mutation ?? ....
Mutation is not due to evolution or adaptation. It's due to random copy errors. And adaptation is not hard-coded in any sense. Those two things are exact opposites.
I agree that mutation is not evolution or adaption but 'corruption' of existing information.
Adaption is already 'coded' into the genome and only becomes prevalent due to your 'pressures', otherwise how can dna 'adapt' without a sequence to express that 'adaption'. So run it by me again, in the context of this topic, what is the process that alters or adapts an existing dna sequence by adding extra information ??...
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