Dear Mary and Bill,
The two references I mentioned at the meeting are:
Mayr, Ernst. 1982 _The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and
Inheritance_ Harvard University Press: Cambridge Massachusetts.
"To be for or against teleology remained a battle cry throughout the nineteenth
century and right up to modern times.
Only within the last twenty-five years or so has the solution become evident.
It is now clear that seemingly goal-directed processes exist in nature and are
not in any way in conflict with a strictly physio-chemical explaination. p. 48.
Nature Editorial 2000 "Can Biological Phenomena Be Understood by Humans?"
Nature vol 403 27 January p. 345.
"... the kind of modeling needed to understand the complex intracellular
networks that underlie most biological functions comes straight from engineering
control theory." p. 345.
Jim Sturgeon has the idea that the psychology department here would be
interested in what you have to say. This seems unlikely to me, but then he
knows the local situation better than I do. Will keep you posted on how plans
are developing.
best wishes
Bill Williams
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