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HomePCTBill PowersThe origins of purpose: the first metasystem transitions

The origins of purpose: the first metasystem transitions

April 17, 2022 Dag Forssell Bill Powers, Biology & Neuroscience, Papers, PCT

William T. Powers

A proposal that the the emergence of negative feedback control and the emergence of life are the same thing. A picture emerges in which the basic principle of control runs like a unifying thread from the first living molecules to modern complex organisms.

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