EMERGENT MODELING. “In recurrent and novel environmental situations, individual cells, tissues and whole plants model the cost/benefits of particular future behaviors, so that the energetic costs and risks do not exceed the benefits that adaptive behavior procures. Such modeling takes place on an adaptive representational network that is an emergent property arising from cellular signal transduction and whole plant interactive networks.”
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