This paper proposes a concept for modeling biological adaptation, where the adaptation is based on interactions between the environment and genetic information.
Emphasis is placed on the principles for directing the adaptation toward an explicitly given goal.
The concept is similar to one familiar in cybernetics, where the goal is not only to control the behavior, but also to construct new systems. Constructive cybernetics is often called second-order cybernetics. In this paper we present a computational modeling method for these principles. Thu Aug 30 1995.