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A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
Big Biology
Can You Have Agency Without Natural Selection?
Darwin didn't bother to talk about any other kind of complex system, he was only interested in one with fins and feathers. So do you think you can have agency without selection? I don't know that I can answer the question that way because I have it in my head in such a different way. Inevitably, anytime you get at the existence of a complex system or you get a system that comes to sustain itself through time, as long as sustaining happens for long enough, if you ever get to a point of replication, you're going to have the instantiation of informationsuch that the future generation will be different than the last ones. That's evolution by natural selection of any
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