Terence Deacon's 'Incomplete Nature' seems not to have understood the points about ratchets and multi-stability, or perhaps re-invented them with extraordinarily obscure terminology.

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• Multi-stable mechanical systems with energy barriers (ratchets) provide a physical model for how genetic states persist and discretely change.hypothesis0.771
• It is impossible, in principle, for an unfolding process to produce the works of Botta, Mies, or Le Corbusier; their works are therefore arbitrary and lifeless.claim0.759
  Strong in-principle claim against modern icons.
• Much of what is written by philosophers of science is either false or incomplete because they do not take account of the implications of Schrödinger's ideas for chemistry and biology.claim0.749
  Sloman's broad methodological critique of philosophy of science.
• In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.747
  Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
• Turing's morphogenesis dynamics, D'Arcy Thompson's physical constraints, and Waddington's epigenetic landscape all describe the same phenomenon in different substrates as Alexander and Levin.claim0.747
• The philosophical zombie is incoherent by analogy: claiming zombie electrons — particles that behave identically to real electrons but are not 'actually' electrons — makes no sense, because 'electron' just names observable properties.claim0.744
  Paper's refutation of philosophical zombie concept via functionalist analogy
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.742
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• The beautiful balance of endless repetition and endless variation, typical in almost all of nature, and typical of the greatest of the ancient artefacts, may be coming within our grasp once again.quote0.739
  Expresses the aspiration of the new production method to recover a natural quality of order.