I am on the "road" on vacation now for a month so I do not have the time and resources available at hand as I usually do so I will note two things and BEGIN to respond.
1) think about semantic information transfer which might SKIP a generation
2)the thermo stuff- I will get into the details on on NOT thinking chemically abt compounds but about chemistry as an "instructed mixture paradigm" (see J.-M. Lehn,"Supramolecular Chemistry/Science SOME Conjectures AND Perspectives" in "SUPRAMOLECULAR SCIENCE WHERE IT IS AND WHERE IT IS GOING" NATO SERIES 1998-527.
There is a littel bit of "creative" reading that is necessary for the best (Noble Prize level) thinking still had seperated physical and biological hierarchies which would be UR unified on this thought outside the subject and object it was.
Yes, I am thinking of A LITERAL existence for said thermostat whether organlle exemplar or just posssible demonstrable by reorganizing Pascal's postulate on the cone where electrons seek the outside conducter with the identification in such chemistry of what elsewise technically is a thermocouple, (this would be a triangle etc instead).
The point will be tha the "netural" changes might be part of a functioning thermostat which obeys the Gibbs minimization of Gladyshev but that the difference of junk DNA and coded DNA is simply the level of organization that selection can cut the macrothermodynamic nesting across in. Depedning on the plietropy and epistasis a given base pair difference between individuals might alter the LEVEL of organization being stablized (organelle vs organ etc) but within the same equilibrIUM taxogeneically (per grade in a clade associable space AND time metaphysically).
More later. Brad.