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Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology. [PDF]
Biol Theory, 2023 AbstractThe concept of teleonomy has been attracting renewed attention recently. This is based on the idea that teleonomy provides a useful conceptual replacement for teleology, and even that it constitutes an indispensable resource for thinking biologically about purposes. However, both these claims are open to question.
Dresow M, Love AC.
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Living Control Systems: Exploring a Teleonomic Account of Behavior in Apis mellifera [PDF]
InsectsSelf-regulatory foraging behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera) was investigated using the framework of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT). We developed a PCT-based model to describe how bees maintain goal-directed behavior, specifically targeting a ...
Ian T. Jones +2 more
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Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution [PDF]
Organon F, 2023 Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently.
Jonathan Bartlett
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A Metric for the Entropic Purpose of a System [PDF]
EntropyPurpose in systems is considered to be beyond the purview of science since it is thought to be intrinsically personal. However, just as Claude Shannon was able to define an impersonal measure of information, so we formally define the (impersonal ...
Michael C. Parker +2 more
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Protein Sequences Recapitulate Genetic Code Evolution [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2018 Several hypotheses predict ranks of amino acid assignments to genetic code's codons. Analyses here show that average positions of amino acid species in proteins correspond to assignment ranks, in particular as predicted by Juke's neutral mutation ...
Hervé Seligmann
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Aisthesis, 2022 Teleology is still a source of embarrassment for the natural sciences and in particular for biology that seems unable to describe and explain the genesis and structure of life without it. How is it possible for something not yet existing to determine the
Francesco Vitale
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The primordial tRNA acceptor stem code from theoretical minimal RNA ring clusters [PDF]
BMC Genetics, 2020 Background Theoretical minimal RNA rings code by design over the shortest length once for each of the 20 amino acids, a start and a stop codon, and form stem-loop hairpins. This defines at most 25 RNA rings of 22 nucleotides. As a group, RNA rings mimick
Jacques Demongeot, Hervé Seligmann
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The Multiscale Wisdom of the Body: Collective Intelligence as a Tractable Interface for Next-Generation Biomedicine. [PDF]
BioessaysCurrent biomedical interventions largely focus on bottom‐up techniques targeting the molecular hardware. Regenerative medicine will increasingly exploit top‐down approaches inspired by concepts in the behavioral and information sciences to target the collective intelligence of cells in vivo.
Levin M.
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Agency in evolution of biomolecular communication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1525, Issue 1, Page 88-103, July 2023., 2023 The emergence of agency in biomolecular systems involves a biphasic process of communication that constructs a message before it can be transmitted for interpretation. Evolutionary genomic and bioinformatic explorations suggest agency emerges when molecular machinery generates hierarchical layers of vocabularies in an entangled communication network ...
Gustavo Caetano‐Anollés
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Antibody‐mediated enzyme formation: Its legacy at age fifty‐four
Journal of Molecular Recognition, Volume 34, Issue 12, December 2021., 2021 The Two Waves. This sign stands on the waterfront promenade of Nervi, the East end of Genoa's municipality as a warning against dangerous storms. Here, we are using it as a conceptual illustration of the peculiar rhythm of frequency of the AMEF pubblications since 1967. Abstract Antibody‐mediated enzyme formation is a phenomenon first described in 1968
Roberto Strom, Franco Celada
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