作为新物理现象的进化创新与等级体系构建
Evolutionary Innovation Viewed as Novel Physical Phenomena and Hierarchical Systems Building
摘要:
在以前的工作中,我提出了一个思考开放式进化的框架。该框架将达尔文进化所需的基本过程描述为:(1)从遗传描述中产生表型;(2)评估该表型;(3)成功的基因型-表型变异的繁殖。我的治疗强调了生物和非生物环境的潜在影响,以及物理/化学定律对这些过程的影响。我证明了这些过程可以允许持续探索可能表型空间的条件(我将其标记为探索性开放性)。然而,这些过程本身并不能扩展可能的表型的空间,因此不能解释更有趣和更意想不到的进化创新类型(例如我标记为扩张性和转型开放性的那些)。在之前的工作中,我研究了扩张性和变革性创新可能出现的方式。我提出了跨域桥和非添加剂组合系统作为两种机制,通过这两种机制可以产生这些创新。在本文中,我希望概括和扩展这两个概念。我通过采用参数空间-组织空间-行动空间(POA)的观点来做到这一点,正如我以前的工作中所建议的那样,并提出所有进化创新都可以被视为捕获一些以前未使用的新物理现象,或者在环境中创建新的持久系统。
英文摘要:
In previous work I proposed a framework for thinking about open-ended evolution. The framework characterised the basic processes required for Darwinian evolution as: (1) the generation of a phenotype from a genetic description; (2) the evaluation of that phenotype; and (3) the reproduction with variation of successful genotype-phenotypes. My treatment emphasized the potential influence of the biotic and abiotic environment, and of the laws of physics/chemistry, on each of these processes. I demonstrated the conditions under which these processes can allow for ongoing exploration of a space of possible phenotypes (which I labelled exploratory open-endedness). However, these processes by themselves cannot expand the space of possible phenotypes and therefore cannot account for the more interesting and unexpected kinds of evolutionary innovation (such as those I labelled expansive and transformational open-endedness). In the previous work I looked at ways in which expansive and transformational innovations could arise. I proposed transdomain bridges and non-additive compositional systems as two mechanisms by which these kinds of innovations could arise. In the current paper I wish to generalise and expand upon these two concepts. I do this by adopting the Parameter Space-Organisation Space-Action Space (POA) perspective, as suggested at in my previous work, and proposing that all evolutionary innovations can be viewed as either capturing some novel physical phenomena that had previously been unused, or as the creation of new persistent systems within the environment.
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