Abstract
Network science has made what once seemed miracle into practical science: we can set up conditions for self-building systems, and we can use their patterns of variability to identify and explain processes underlying prospective control in biological systems.
Highlights
Network science has made what once seemed miracle into practical science: we can set up conditions for self-building systems, and we can use their patterns of variability to identify and explain processes underlying prospective control in biological systems
Other sciences must wait for outside forces to stimulate a system into action, but cognitive science has begged your patience for a central article of faith: if you accept that a system can steer itself toward the future, we might find important insights into behavior
Anticipation suffuses popular neo-Darwinist understandings of evolution as life tailoring itself according to variable transmission of genotypes
Summary
Network science has made what once seemed miracle into practical science: we can set up conditions for self-building systems, and we can use their patterns of variability to identify and explain processes underlying prospective control in biological systems. Other sciences must wait for outside forces to stimulate a system into action, but cognitive science has begged your patience for a central article of faith: if you accept that a system can steer itself toward the future, we might find important insights into behavior.
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