Re: John Collier At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15782
John, List, That is a very nice paper! It was something of a bio-trope back when I was spending a lot more time in the company of bio-sci folk to say that the phenotype was just a device for reproducing the genotype, and I think that is more or less a turn on the symmetry issue that you mention. Reading that in a Peircean frame of mind, I took it to mean that the real object of the process was neither nucleic acids nor amino acids nor proteins but some pragma of evolution about which they all turned. Regards, Jon On 3/5/2015 9:29 AM, John Collier wrote:
I would agree with Jon on this. I argued that
> control theory/ information theory can result > in a symmetry problem for explaining biological > function, and that a particular notion of autonomy > provides thirds (in a particular way) for biological > systems. The paper is at > Explaining Biological Functionality : Is Control Theory Enough? > http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/Final%20SAJP_30%281%29_Collier%5B1%5D.pdf > South African Journal of Philosophy. 2011, 30(4): 53-62. > It can also be found on the South African Journal of Philosophy site.
John
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