selection and choice vs bifurcation
Don Mikulecky (mikuleck@HSC.VCU.EDU)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:56:36 -0500
If selection and choice are too anthropomorphic, then can we retreat
back to the notion of bifurcation? If a system is so constructed as to
have a "model" of its environment in it (we can give an example of a
simple feed-forward enzyme system) it can behave in such a way that we
would anthropomorphize as "anticipation". However the system can be
easily represented formally. If we combine this property with sets of
bifurcations, it seems we have something that would pass as a formal
description of "choice" and with some embellishment from the environment
we could also handle "selection" formally without anthropomorphic
undertones. Am I too far afield?
Don Mikulecky