A Primer on Adaptation and Emergence
Change and innovation in human endeavors follow adaptive evolutionary mechanisms akin to change and innovations in biological nature. Change and innovation in business, government, military, technology, or the arts are not fully planned or envisioned but emerge from countless interactions as part of complex adaptive systems. Even artificial intelligence and other computational methods are evolutionary mechanisms that follow the laws of complex adaptive systems, which is why they can pick up faint signals.
But this is not your grandparents’ evolution. Perish the myths and misunderstandings: evolution is not slow, it is not random (though it has chance elements), it does not require DNA, it does not ...
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