Generative Mechanisms: The mechanisms that implement codes
Information Theory
2021-05-11 v1 math.IT
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to abstractly describe the notion of a generative mechanism that implements a code and to provide a number of examples including the DNA-RNA machinery that implements the genetic code, Chomsky's Principles & Parameters model of a child acquiring a specific grammar given `chunks' of linguistic experience (which play the role of the received code), and embryonic development where positional information in the developing embryo plays the role of the received code. A generative mechanism is distinguished from a selectionist mechanism that has heretofore played an important role in biological modeling (e.g., Darwinian evolution and the immune system).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.03907,
title = {Generative Mechanisms: The mechanisms that implement codes},
author = {David Ellerman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03907},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.4501