[FRIAM] Natural Design as a primitive property (was FRIAM and Causality)

[Glen E. P. Ropella]

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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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