[MD] Responding to DQ

[Michael Hamilton]

Greetings, amoeba fanciers,

The amoeba moving away from the acid can be identified _by us_ as a
repeatable, predictable, static pattern of value, by virtue of which
the amoeba has avoided extinction for millenia. I don't see any doubt
there. The issue, as I see it, is whether or not the amoeba species
has encoded 'move away from the acid' as a static pattern, in DNA or
otherwise. In other words, is it already a pattern before we identify
it, or are the movements of the amoeba just part of the soup of
unpatterned DQ?

On 6/3/06, Arlo J. Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [Platt]
> An amoeba moving away from acid is responding to DQ? Like saying my
> stepping out of the way of oncoming truck or hopping off a hot stove is
> responding to DQ. Surely you jest.
>
> [Arlo]
> So, then what is the amoeba responding to?
>
> Arlo
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