¶ Epigenetics
Index Entry
Epigenetics:
"All living creatures,
Being both entropic and anti-entropic,
Are, as Professor Waddington points out,
Forever altering th environment
At a faster rate than it alters itself.
And the ever more completely
Altered environment
Is, in turn, continually altering
All the creatures.
This external modification
Of living morphology
Waddington calls epigenetics.
This exponentially regenerative interplay
Is describable in information theory
As ‘self-accelerating feedback’
And in nuclear physics it is manifest
As chain-reaction
And in an even more comprehensive way
It is manifest irreversibly
As a subfunctioning of universal evolution."
¶ Citations
- RBF Draft, BRAIN & MIND, p. 4, Feb’71
