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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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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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Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology [PDF]
Biological Theory, 2023 Alan C. Love, Max Dresow
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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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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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Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin
Religions, 2020 It is often assumed that direction and purpose in nature—teleology—is a dead relic of the past, a result of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871). But teleology has had a long and complex relationship with science.
Michael A. Flannery
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The Nature of Stability in Replicating Systems
Entropy, 2011 We review the concept of dynamic kinetic stability, a type of stability associated specifically with replicating entities, and show how it differs from the well-known and established (static) kinetic and thermodynamic stabilities associated with regular ...
Addy Pross, Nathaniel Wagner
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Foreword. Finalism and Judgement
Aisthesis, 2021 What does it mean to “judge” something? What are the preconditions and the necessary prerequisites for the formulation of a judgement (be it a cognitive judgement, a moral judgement, or an aesthetic judgement)?
Fabrizio Desideri, Mariagrazia Portera
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Information, 2010 All new developments in biology deal with the issue of the complexity of organisms, often pointing out the necessity to update our current understanding.
Gennaro Auletta
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