ABSTRACT
In symbolic dynamics, we assign an arbitrary symbol to represent each discrete physicodynamic state. But inanimate nature cannot represent anything using symbols. The latter is a formal function, not a physicodynamic effect that would occur in a primordial environment. Second, using a symbol to represent a physicodynamically determined state is not a control function. It is merely a descriptive function similar to symbolizing initial conditions with formal units of measure. Although both are formal functions, neither is cybernetically determinative. The symbol does not represent a prescriptive decision node choice from among real options. Thus a sequence of symbols in symbolic dynamics serves no programming function. Linear digital genetic prescription does. The latter programming strings not only predate animal existence, they produced animals, their brain and minds. Such programming cannot be reduced to human epistemological models of information. Genetic cybernetics at the cellular level is objective, not subjective.
