Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 2:04pm.
Hoping to hear more from Astra/Peter, who raised the issue, but a place holder, just in case:
Loop one is indeed characteristic of all living organisms, trees and bacteria included. It is one gives "model building" capability. And loop two is probably restricted to more complex organisms (humans, mammals, birds?, octopus?). But there is some important difference between trees/bacteria on the one hand and leeches/frogs on the other. Possibly (A/P's suggestion) the ability to associate? to use temporal coincidence as a model building ingredient?
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Hoping to hear more from Astra/Peter, who raised the issue, but a place holder, just in case:
Loop one is indeed characteristic of all living organisms, trees and bacteria included. It is one gives "model building" capability. And loop two is probably restricted to more complex organisms (humans, mammals, birds?, octopus?). But there is some important difference between trees/bacteria on the one hand and leeches/frogs on the other. Possibly (A/P's suggestion) the ability to associate? to use temporal coincidence as a model building ingredient?