Selection

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Systems “try to survive” and are differentially well equipped for that, depending in their specific Environment. Selection is just the effect that, in every environment, “what works stays”.This implies that selection is a universal process that also acts on non-living systems (see e.g. Campbell and Price 2019). This is a stronger view than Multi-level Selection.

As a corollary to the systems view of Evolution, we can say that Selection is Bayesian Search.

Darwinian evolution, i.e. variation and selection plus heredity, is one implementation of this Bayesian Search, but can be a range of others, depending on the available infrastructure, e.g. in Cultural Evolution.

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