DNA Dispose, but Subjects Decide. Learning and the Extended Synthesis [0.03%]
处置DNA，但由试验对象决定。学习与扩大的合成理论
Markus Lindholm
Markus Lindholm
Adaptation by means of natural selection depends on the ability of populations to maintain variation in heritable traits. According to the Modern Synthesis this variation is sustained by mutations and genetic drift. Epigenetics, evodevo, ni...
J H van Hateren
J H van Hateren
Biological organisms appear to have agency, goals, and meaningful behaviour. One possibility is that this is mere appearance, where such properties are not real, but only 'as if' consequences of the physiological structure of organisms. Ano...
Sławomir Wacewicz,Przemysław Żywiczyński
Sławomir Wacewicz
The set of design features developed by Charles Hockett in the 1950s and 1960s remains probably the most influential means of juxtaposing animal communication with human language. However, the general theoretical perspective of Hockett is l...
Alexei A Sharov,Tommi Vehkavaara
Alexei A Sharov
Life has semiotic nature; and as life forms differ in their complexity, functionality, and adaptability, we assume that forms of semiosis also vary accordingly. Here we propose a criterion to distinguish between the primitive kind of semios...
James A Coffman
James A Coffman
Chance has somewhat different meanings in different contexts, and can be taken to be either ontological (as in quantum indeterminacy) or epistemological (as in stochastic uncertainty). Here I argue that, whether or not it stems from physica...
Manipulating Representations [0.03%]
操控表征
Angelo N M Recchia-Luciani
Angelo N M Recchia-Luciani
The present paper proposes a definition for the complex polysemic concepts of consciousness and awareness (in humans as well as in other species), and puts forward the idea of a progressive ontological development of consciousness from a st...
The Rules of Variation Expanded, Implications for the Research on Compatible Genomics [0.03%]
变异法则拓展与兼容基因组学研究的展望
Fernando Castro-Chavez
Fernando Castro-Chavez
The main focus of this article is to present the practical aspect of the code rules of variation and the search for a second set of genomic rules, including comparison of sequences to understand how to preserve compatible organisms in dange...
Alexei A Sharov
Alexei A Sharov
Functional information means an encoded network of functions in living organisms from molecular signaling pathways to an organism's behavior. It is represented by two components: code and an interpretation system, which together form a self...