Affiliation:
1. Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland , St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7 , Canada
Abstract
AbstractThe goal-directedness of biological evolution is realized via the anticipatory achievement of the final state of the system that corresponds to the condition of its perfection in self-maintenance and in adaptability. In the course of individual development, a biological system maximizes its power via synergistic effects and becomes able to perform external work most efficiently. In this state, defined as stasis, robust self-maintaining configurations act as attractors resistant to external and internal perturbations. This corresponds to the local energy–time constraints that most efficiently fit the integral optimization of the whole system. In evolution, major evolutionary transitions that establish new states of stasis are achieved via codepoiesis, a process in which the undecided statements of existing coding systems form the basis for the evolutionary unfolding of the system by assigning new values to them. The genetic fixation of this macroevolutionary process leads to new programmes of individual development representing the process of natural computation. The phenomenon of complexification in evolution represents a metasystem transition that results in maximization of a system’s power and in the ability to increase external work performed by the system.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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