closure to efficient causation

Thanks for this message. I finally got around to reading it to the end and it definitely illuminated something I heretofore did not fully understand. Specifically the paragraph I quoted below. Would you say that the process of ontogenesis viewed in this light is about bringing the "outside" inside the organism? In fact, RR notes in Essay on Life Itself that ontogenesis involves another iteration of M,R process. To my limited understanding it seems like this larger iteration could be taken to refer to Evolution. If so, what are the gravitational/inertial aspects of this larger process? Does the environment play the gravitational role in forcing the genotype?

"... The outside is vitally
important to the organism and cannot be fractioned away, and yet it is
largely represented by internal agents. This leads naturally to the
idea of encoding the outside by these agents; i.e., importing information into the system in a causally effective way.

This is closure to efficient causation, and it is understood to be
partial; i.e., enough of such larger system involvements to create
problems for the traditional physical analysis, such as an identity and
substantially preserved structure-function relationships. The result is
an organism that is substantially "self" causing, but that is a deceipt
because it is not caused from the inside, it is caused by
representations of the outside, inside."