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> Tim Gwinn wrote: In the Modeling Relation, encoding and decoding are
unentailed *within the MR itself*. However, they are not therefore unentailed
entirely. Modeling Relations do occur within the world in which we believe
physical laws operate.
This is exactly correct and IS, indeed, what my father said, in his
development of the body of ideas that is Rosennean Complexity Theory. Tim has,
in fact, stated this idea of my father's quite succinctly, without losing any of
the "truth" in it-- a neat trick. Bravo, Tim.
However, there is some confusion when a formal modeling relation is
referred to as "the MR" (which stands for modeling relation) because my father's
model of living systems is "the (M,R)-System. In that case, M stands for
metabolism and R stands for repair. There is further room for confusion here
because, in an (M,R)-System... there is an innate modeling relation
built into the organization of the system-- which allows such systems to
act in an anticipatory manner.
Judith
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