Re: Stephen Wolfram vs. Charles Darwin on natural selection
- From: John Edser <edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:18:47 -0500 (EST)
Organisms - at least pre-conscious organisms - are in fact reproduced
via a developmental program that is mostly specified by genetic factors.
So Kolmogorov complexity would seem to be a natural measure.
JE:-
But this "developmental program" remains overwhelmingly specified by
epistatic (non additive) "genetic factors" which were simply deleted
within population genetics (oversimplified) synthetic models. IOW, non
reversible nested sets of genetic factors specify complexity and not
just mathematically based reversible intersecting sets of genetic
factors. These set types could not be more different.
The lineal visual structure of chromosomes belies the empirical fact
that genes were and remain developmentally structured into nested sets
(proper sub sets) of heritable information providing a non reversible
gene hierarchy which is not yet understood. Just to be able to
appreciate the immensity of this problem requires population geneticists
to make a 180 degree turn in their appreciation of complexity.
Regards,
John Edser
Independent Researcher
edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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