Thanks VERY much for posting some digested material from the paper. What you say below seems to hearken back to what JonZ (or maybe JohnK?) said awhile back, ... paraphrasing: that he would be hard-pressed to find something that organisms can do that can't be duplicated by a sequential machine.
That type of statement and yours below do not *imply* that an effect was NOT generated by a (semi)hierarchical structure. It merely implies something like the parallelism theorem, that anything a (semi)hierarchial system can do, a "flat" one can do (though perhaps with extra space or time costs). Am I reading your statement right? On 5/2/19 12:02 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > But they don't actually extract the levels of organization from the model. > They take the levels of organization as known facts and construct > observations of the model that make predictions consistent with the levels. > So if there are levels of organization as yet unidentified, they are at least > as obscure in the model as they are in reality. And to claim that the > levels of organization emerge from the model sort of ignores how much work > went into constructing the observations. > > On the other hand, one might be surprised that all these levels are implicit > in the amino acid sequences, but life knew that already, that's why it only > remembers the sequences. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
