Dynome

Dynome

The dynome is the set of informational states physically instantiated in biological or biologically derived substrates that change on timescales shorter than a generation. This restriction is deliberate. The dynome is not any information-processing network; it is a network whose substrate is built by, contained within, or directly derived from a stasome.

Examples of dynome content include:

1. Neural networks in animal brains, which store, model, and modify behavioral responses across an organism's lifetime.
2. Adaptive immune memory in vertebrates, which records pathogen exposure history within an individual.
3. Bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems, which incorporate environmental information (viral sequences) directly into a regulatory subset of the stasome on within-lifetime timescales.
4. Cellular regulatory and signaling networks that integrate environmental input and reconfigure gene expression states without altering the underlying stasome.
5. Developmental state machines, the transient regulatory configurations that guide morphogenesis.

Dynomes are heterogeneous in their physical instantiation but share two properties: they are physically continuous with biological matter, and their state can change much faster than the stasome they are coupled to. The dynome is the part of an organism that actively models the symvironment.