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A BioComplexity Measure
Key Conceptual Systems:
- Embedded Nested Aggregate Dissipative Structures
- Selective Systems
- Implicate Order
Key Measures:
- Microstates
- Entropy
- Integration
- Mutual Information
- Cluster Index
- Complexity
NOTE: by the use of the term Somatic Selection I DO NOT mean the
idea of Lamarckian Inheritance of Acquired Characters
ie.
like the Lamarckian conceptions of selection
put forward by E.J. Steele.
It is my feeling that the structural levels mediating the performance of each nested selective system are those levels at which a complexity measure must be made.
The problem then follows as to how to integrate the nested set of complexity measures so as to give a meaningful quantitative measure of overall complexity.
Biocomplexity Measure Calculations
SELECTION THEORY LINKS
Gary A. Cziko and Donald T. Campbell (1916-1996)
Quotes about Selection Theory
A History of Selection Ideas
Mysteries of DNA and cell differentiation have been solved; now we must explore the realm of epigenesis. By Gerald M. Edelman
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