The information would be in the environment, not in the DNA. The environment supplies the yes or no answer to whether a change is useful or not. That's the source of information.
[[The information would be in the environment, not in the DNA.]]
The info could very well be stored in the metainfo- Metainfo is the grand info which responds to info in the species that gets change or pressured to change rather- the environment is merely the catalyst the moves the species to change- Does that sound more reasonable?
[[The environment supplies the yes or no answer to whether a change is useful or not.]]
Not sure I can agree with that- the body of a species determines whether the change were useful to it in the presence of the changed environment- not the environment itself.
I think the environment would be the feedback mechanism. The metainfo provides information about what the possible options are. The environment provides information about whether a particular option is useful under current conditions. What's useful right now might not be useful later, and then it's time to start looking for better options.