Sublime

Evolution has no foresight.

The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe. However, the approach most scientists actually follow is to separate the problem into two parts. First, there are the laws that tell us how the universe changes with time. (If we know what the universe is like at any one time, these physical laws tell us h

Now we have made a mechanistic argument that unites the second law with the law of requisite variety to produce a principle of increasing cosmic complexity, which inevitably generates increasingly empowered adaptive agents.

New strategies, new things are coming and going and striving to survive and do well in a situation they mutually create. We can describe this algorithmically, but not easily by equations, not just because the situation is complicated to track but because new behaviors and categories of behavior are not easily captured by equations.

But saying that both economic and biological systems are subclasses of a more general and universal class of evolutionary systems tells us a lot. This is because researchers believe that there are general laws of evolutionary systems.28 Scientists consider certain features of nature universal. For example, gravity works the same way on the earth as

no more need to have them enforce our contracts.

This is a “rich get richer” sort of model in which the more a word is used in the past, the more likely it is that it will attract more use in the future.