From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 17:34:22 MDT
These "feedback loops" sound surprisingly similar to Stuart Kauffman's "tiny attractors", don't you think?
Walter
rhinoceros wrote:
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> "Autocatalytic evolution simply means this: evolution is caused (catalyzed) by itself (auto). It is self-propelled by feedback loops. If this means that most evolutionary change is catalyzed or caused by the inherent nature of a species, then the grand theories of environmental forcing fall away. Evolution would proceed with or without changes in climate or in the plant and animal community with which a species interacts. Evolution is the cause of evolution, and it continues by its chaotic devices."
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> --
Walter Watts
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