Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA05221 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 13 May 2000 19:41:57 +0100 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 11:40:12 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: are memes born of complex systems? To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <391DA18C.3A445C9E@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-PBI-NC404 (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: ja,en References: <B6E47FBD3879D31192AD009027AC929C3688DD@NWTH-EXCHANGE> <00c101bfbcb6$833c4c60$03000004@r2z3h3> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Tyger,
> questions that I ponder:
> 1. is evolution a feature of complex systems? (thus implying the secondary
> nature of evolution to the primacy of complexity in nature) or
The solar system is complex, but it does not reproduce. No
evolution.
> 2. is complexity a feature of evolution (Thus implying the opposite)
I think that complexity is a feature of co-evolution. E. g., arms
races. Coevolving entities provide a dynamic environment for each
other, which speeds up evolution and also leads to complexity,
given multidimensional possibilities for exploiting the
environment. As the returns from exploitation of one dimension
diminish, changes along other dimensions make more efficient use
of resources. The result is complexity.
Best,
Bill
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