Is evolvability evolvable? [was: Paper: Is evolvability evolvable?]


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Is evolvability evolvable? [was: Paper: Is evolvability evolvable?]

Hi!

The answer is yes!

The evolution is getting faster and faster and has a direction.
The evolution ist selforiented and developed itself.

In a selfrelated world the evolution works /under/ the evolution!

If faster systems were selected, also faster processes for the selection
of faster systems would selected.


http://thumulla.com/Evolution/node4.html

<quote>
Therefore, the process starts with systems copying themselves with
slight deviations, and which thus can be subject to natural selection,
that is, evolution. At the outset of evolution the system is passive.
However, there is not just an evolutionary pressure to adapt to certain
environmental conditions, but there is also a pressure in the direction
of the ability to adapt and react accordingly in general. Thus it
follows that evolutionary processes are also subject to evolutionary
pressures.
</quote>


http://thumulla.com/Evolution/node5.html

<quote>
Increase in the speed of evolution Naturally, the speed of evolution and
adaption cannot be clearly separated from one another, because the
system changes implemented by evolution, which are of significance for
the freedom of the system however, are taken over into the control
mechanism by the system, facilitating a fast adaption. Fixed system
functions acquired by the system turn into freely available control
functions. Parallel to this, a transition to faster, more effective
evolutionary processes takes place, for example natural selection »
self-organization. The demand for high speed in evolution for a system
becomes the demand for high speed in adaption to changing conditions
and, further on, the demand for high reaction speed in dealing with the
environment.
</quote>


http://thumulla.com/Evolution/node8.html

<quote>
In turn, release of energy, potential reduction, follows general rules.
The overall system is still being optimized. In this sense, the battle
as a conflict between systems is an evolutionary process. However, new
aspects come into play. These new aspects bring about further
evolutionary advances. The result will be an abstraction of events
around the battle. The increasing extension of orientation processes and
the opportunity to calculate events around the battle lead to an
increasing abstraction of conflicts and contests. At new system levels,
the results of these conflicts and contests are codified as rules,
regulations, laws, etc.
</quote>

<quote>
The necessity of conflict and contest leads up to an optimization of the
overall system in a new evolutionary process. The direction of the flow
of information is increasingly harder to detect. The system´s own theory
provides a major portion of the information required.
</quote>


http://thumulla.com/Evolution/node14.html

<quote>
The evolution of a cybernetic system leads to higher forms of adaption,
i.e. from selection to orientation and/or from selection to
self-organization and on to action â?? something which means transition
from passive to active adaption, and transition from mere information
storage to the establishment of a theory.
</quote>


regards
Carsten
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bad cop today

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