A Fundamentally New Synthesis in Biology?

Summary of Chapter 11:

"In Darwinism, phenotype is a product of selection that emerges from random genetic variations. In cellular–molecular epigenetic evolution, the phenotype (adult multicellular organism) is the means by which the unicellular zygote acquires contemporary environmental information. That information becomes part of the cellular information cycle, which is expressed as the phenotype through collaborative natural cellular engineering and niche construction."

The abstract of this chapter is rather esoteric and technical and this is probably typical of the overall text.

First let me say, I support your call for these new ideas to be written in such a way so that a layperson can get the core meanings.  I apologize if I push you and others to experience the meanings, precisely because of this gap.

Unfortunately, my writing and organization skills are poor and no manner of good intentions are going to make my unpolished prose be anything but wordy and confusing.  Still, it does matter that Psi and recognition of mind in nature get heard in a science framework.  The history of the ideas helps.  The fight to cleave off mystical things from science is pragmatic and useful in getting to objective data.  For Psi to get taken seriously we cannot lose depth and soulfulness, but need to speak in the language of logic and math as well.

The term esoteric has a common meaning just as you use it.  But some will read it as the term - woo.  There is nothing woo-like in the Abstract's above wording.

(1) The first sentence sets the stage for a counter-argument in this chapter to RM + NS.
(2) The second sentence introduces Epigenetics as direct evidence against RM.  Those scientists that broke the data and process models are well represented as ThirdWay members.  The key concept is how information is communicated outside of RM and that information is connected (mutual information mathematically) to the greater environment.
(3) Is a sentence that if I had any expertise - I would like to write.  The term "information cycle" speaks to me of the separate level of processes that structure the information.  The term "niche construction" ties the information processing back to the environment, both the physical biology and the ecology.