Indeed, and I think we can make a couple of specific responses to the passage you quote. The first thing is that if selection of a specific behavior is determi

Indeed, and I think we can make a couple of specific responses to the passage you quote. The first thing is that if selection of a specific behavior is determined by environmental together with the internal organization of the system making the selection, how is that not reactive, why would it matter if it isn't, and why does that not apply to robots? The second point is that the internal organization of organisms is a result of evolution, so it too has been determined by the environment, and, furthermore, by a process that can be - and is - used to develop programs. There are heavy doses of ontological argumentation here ("this is an X and that is a Y"), but our categories are determined by what we know (or think we do.) As you say, nature can make a mockery of those boundaries.