[js1138]

The author cites Michael Ruse’s example of stegosaur plates, that they begin forming in the embryo but only have a function in the adult—supposedly for temperature control.

Genetalia also begin forming in embryos. How is this an example of foreknowledge?

[Alamo-Girl]

The author threw the stegosaur plate out as an example, I added antifreeze proteins and drought adaptation. You've added gentalia in embryos.

All quite interesting and we could run this thread up to ten thousands of posts addressing specific biological anticipations. That would be a waste of bandwidth.

The point of the AP model is autopoiesis, or to put it another way "you can't get there (autopoiesis) from here (lower level in the model.)"

Autonomony is on the table.