• machinin@lemmy.world
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    Titled the “law of increasing functional information,” it holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks like atoms or cells, and that processes exist - such as cellular mutation - that generate many different configurations. Evolution occurs, it holds, when these various configurations are subject to selection for useful functions.

    It seems difficult to believe that this is as revolutionary as the theory of evolution. Does anyone know if there is any more “meat” to this theory?

  • lostferret@lemmy.world
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    Evo biologist here. These ideas are not really new to the field of evolution, but they are well laid out (if a little dense) & somewhat codified here.

    The paper is an interesting read. Dunno if i agree with all of it yet, but it’s good to see the case made for thinking about evolution as a process that spans systems come up again.

  • ZpAz@lemm.ee
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    Is it just:

    • A species with certain traits is more likely to persist in a their environment.

    • Some elements / forces with certain traits are more likely to persist in their environment. (Eg more stable atom configurations etc)

    I thought everyone was already on board with that.

    The most stable configuration would be the heat death of the universe, which will then be around the longest eventually.

  • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
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    I bet this has something to do with what they recently found out regarding evolution within the lake malawi fish. I heard about that about 2 weeks ago, this lines up too well.