SteveG, Thanks for the Jamie Quinn reference. He touches on some of what I was hoping to start here. I am somewhat disappointed that I do not seem capable of posing the kind of open-ended questions that get others to contribute to a conversation. It may be that Friam isn't the kind of place I should expect to start or sustain one. OTOH, I understand that this is my own problem to either solve or not. As a non sequitur, I did find this nice interview with David Sloan Wilson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsOIiW_Ec4c&ab_channel=WonderfestScience This got me back to thinking about EricS' "large-deviation" language, Simpson's paradox, and (dare I say it) extensive-intensive quantity duality. In his book with Morowitz (that you reference occasionally), EricS mentions such a duality holding *exactly* when some given entropy function is *convex*. I would love to know more about this constraint as it would contribute to an ongoing discussion that I have with Frank and Barry on when one should expect a meaningful theory of duality. Tying back into the video, Wilson mentions that many of the popular inheritance theories (like a theory of selfish genes) bracket some of its action by defining *vehicles*, which I take to be partition relations on genes, and possibly amenable to duality talk (via hom-like relations over genes).
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