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Re: Curious about Neo-Darwinian theory

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:39 pm
by BGoodForGoodSake
Can you provide for those reading this thread a succinct definition for front-loading?

Re: Curious about Neo-Darwinian theory

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:19 am
by godslanguage
Hi Bgood,

I'm sure there are different definitions floating around there. Here is the way I see it:

Front-loading, an act of concentrating proactively substantial biological knowledge (specified functional information - a master template ) into a info-processing system that overtime will generate desired expectations (results) in response to future contingency (events). At each subsequent event rather then greater complexity emerging different complexity emerges as a function of control code and other determinant modules that reactively ( as a response to physical and environmental context) and asynchronously (with little to no respect to specific time ordering between a current state of a form and the next state of environment ) trigger and generate new body plans (form and function). This all happens as a function of the master template which predicts to a certain extent the next state of qualities of information to be unfolded (sub-templates are unique in form as a result of determined ordering or position effects of information which is important). Predictions of front-loading include abrupt appearance with no `real`adaptive significance rather expected adaptive significance (anticipation). Its expected that the earliest of lifeforms contain much of this `visible` and dormant code just lying around. Its also expected that if two of the same types of master templates are seperated between continents (isolated from each other) that overtime expected results in parallel comparisons (of form and function) should be relatively indistinguishable with only minor variabilities or minimal offset. The capability to interbreed becomes very likely as well.

Now, you guys are the biologists, geneticists etc..., your turn to win the nobel prize. I`m a programmer, not a biologist, have fun!