Biological complexity: Feedback loop importance (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 00:57 (3133 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Once again: my hypothesis (not stated as a belief or fact) is that, although most cellular behaviour is automatic, autonomous intelligence comes into play when there are problems to be solved (adaptation) or opportunities to be exploited (innovation). Autonomous does not mean automatic or preprogrammed. - I agree that the organisms can adapt through epigenetic mechanisms, and I still believe those adaptive abilities are programmed. We remain apart.