Evolutionary Processes Create Information Inside Adaptive Systems

The book is about how evolt nary processes create informations, information inside adaptive systems that give them purposeful movement we call agency. So evolutionary processes can be understood as learning processes. When a system adapt how it adapts. A bacterium that swims towards food, rather than swimming at random, is better adapted and has more knowledge of its environ ment in a system that just moves at random. To evade this tendency towards disorder, you have to be able to extract free energy from the environment. There's a cost to maintaining order against the tendency described by the statistical version of the second law o dynamics. And so what evolution is doing is its creating a correlation between a non

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