Re: Models and ecosystem balance/change...

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

Steve,

> Is the ability to develop certain models is itself a
> model that is embedded in the genome or is produced
> through coupling of the phenotype and the environment?
>
> In that sense it would the genome be a second order
> model of the likely models that the organism would
> have to build in order to adapt to the range of
> environments it may find itself in.

Interesting idea. But I think the genome would best be characterized as a
'template' or 'blueprint', rather than a model. The genome does not
generally possess an entailment structure that would be congruent with the
entailment structure of the organization(s) produced as a result of that
genome.

Regards,
Tim