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Senders, receivers, and genetic information: comments on Bergstrom and Rosvall

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  1. Possibly Sterelny et al. (1996) and Maynard Smith (2000) are in this category also, though their "teleo-semantic" proposals were not expressed with explicit use of the idea of a reader or consumer of the inherited message.

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Godfrey-Smith, P. Senders, receivers, and genetic information: comments on Bergstrom and Rosvall. Biol Philos 26, 177–181 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-010-9206-6

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