The origins of purpose: The first metasystem transitions

Autor:	William T. Powers
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Cognitive science Philosophy Purposive behaviorism Punctuated equilibrium media_common.quotation_subject Local environment Metasystem transition Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	World Futures. 45:125-137
ISSN:	1556-1844 0260-4027
Popis:	This speculative essay concerns the origins of purposive behavior and proposes that this is identically the origin of life. Negative feedback and control offer a self‐selecting mechanism that accounts for the long‐term stability of replication of the genome, and a related concept of reorganization offers a rationale for the progress of evolved forms into those which exert greater and greater control over the local environment. A picture emerges in which the basic principle of control runs like a unifying thread from the first living molecules to modern complex organisms.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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