Posted by
glen ep ropella on
Nov 27, 2007; 9:43pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Natural-Design-as-a-primitive-property-was-FRIAM-and-Causality-tp525322p525325.html
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Nicholas Thompson on 11/27/2007 10:22 AM:
> In short we need a dynamical theory. But such a theory will never happen
> until we have a sufficiently subtle (and verbalizable) mathematical
> formalization of the momentary relation between organisms and their
> environments that we are trying to explain. Get at it, you
> mathematicians!!!!
Isn't this what Robert Rosen tried to do? Granted his work is woefully
incomplete; but do you see some fundamental flaw in his work that
prevents it from providing (at least the foundations for) the
formalization you're looking for?
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