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Re: Maximally constrained
- From: Tim Gwinn <***>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:02:21 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [On Behalf Of Howard
> Pattee
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:49 PM
> To: ***
> Subject: Re: Maximally constrained
>
>
> Tim wrote:
> The result would be that an organism is not maximally constrained
> structurally, but is maximally constrained functionally.
>
> HP: I think I follow your thinking, and it sounds right, but I
> will have to think about it myself. The structure function
> relation is clearly many-to-many and vice versa.
>
> Howard
I'm equally hesitant. Partly because its sheer conjecture, but mainly
because at the moment I cannot remotely envision what empirical verification
of this would look like.
Regards,
Tim