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Reliability is a special case of a biologically more fundamental ability—which I call transformability. The substance of the analysis of reliability was: reliable information processing, insofar as it is based on redundancy, requires an increase in the actual magnitudes of the entropies H(ω̱) and H(ω̱|ω*). It also increases the effectiveness of adaptability by increasing the difference between these two entropies. One of the objectives of this chapter is to show that the gradual transformability of biological structure and function is also based on redundancies which increase the actual magnitudes. The most important example is the transformability of the phenotype in response to genetic variation. This is clearly the sine qua non for effective evolutionary adaptation.
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Conrad, M. (1983). Adaptability Theory Analysis of the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship. In: Adaptability. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8327-1_10
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