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Replication in selective systems: Multiplicity of carriers, variation of information, iteration of encounters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

George N. Reeke
George N. Reeke
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Biological Modelling, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 [email protected] www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/reeke/index.html
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Abstract

An analysis of biological selection aimed at deriving a mechanism-independent definition removes Hull et al.'s obligatory requirement for replication of the carriers of information, under conditions, such as those obtaining in the nervous system, where the information content of a carrier can be modified without duplication by an amount controlled by the outcome of interactions with the environment.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 552 - 553
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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