I see where your going with this and you are right. In any of these scenarios there are no central controllers identified. At the same time these do not deal with identifiable traits the display a signature of an "originator". For instance with the antennas, there was still an initial program/programmer that designed the program that would carry out instruction to design antennas. With the ants we are still not dealing with the how did ants get here? Why do ants have such a variety of complex and unique genetic structure design?

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1208186/

What I'm getting at is at the root level there always seems to be a implication or inference of design. Yes, these design patterns seem to formulate behavior and gradual change within their domain. At the same time the domain of change is limited to measurable spectrum of analysis. Who defines these domains? Who set the spectrum in which they are distributed? At the lowest level of biological organization who initially places the constraints in which these systems and species can move and evolve.