Analysis and Effects of Generative Entrenchment in Complex Systems

一个实体的生成性防御是衡量 一个复杂系统的生成结构或活动 取决于该实体的存在或活动。 它有 已经证明，具有更高生成度的实体 在进化过程中， 这样的系统。 复杂结构的模型， 生殖防御的影响已经证明了他们的 在分析和解释各种发展的相关性 和进化现象。 Wimsatt教授和他的毕业生 学生将扩展先前模拟和分析各种 案件、问题和调查的数量或结果， 基因控制网络的进化 他们将延长 考夫曼的工作，他们自己的工作，以及其他人的调查 不同程度的生成性防御对 这些网络的行为及其演变。 以来 几乎任何系统都表现出不同程度的生成性， 在其各部分和活动中，这些研究和 结果还具有广泛的潜在应用， 理论，模拟和实验分析，在一些 地区 这些领域包括：发展计划及其 进化的意义，宏观进化的变化，先天的， 语言学中获得的区别和使用它的研究 和认知心理学，发展限制，限制 复杂适应的进化，甚至在分析中， 科学的变化。

The generative entrenchment of an entity is a measure of how much of the generated structure or activity of a complex system depends upon the presence or activity of that entity. It has been demonstrated that entities with higher degrees of generative entrenchment tend to be more conservative in evolutionary changes of such systems. Models of complex structures incorporating the effects of generative entrenchment have demonstrated their relevance in analyzing and explaining a variety of developmental and evolutionary phenomena. Professor Wimsatt and his graduate student will extend prior simulations and analyses of a variety of cases, problems and investigations of a number or results on the evolution of gene control networks. They will extend the work of Kauffman, of their own work, and others to investigate the influence of different degrees of generative entrenchment on the behavior of these networks and their evolution. Since virtually any system exhibits differential degrees of generative entrenchment among its parts and activities, these studies and results have in addition broad potential application for theoretical, simulation, and experimental analyses in a number of areas. These areas include: developmental programs and their significance for evolution, macroevolutionary change, the innate- acquired distinction and investigations using it in linguistics and cognitive psychology, developmental constraints, constraints on the evolution of complex adaptations, and even in the analyses of scientific change.