09.30.06
Complexity
The simplistic character of Darwinian simulations is obvious, but the issue is more than the question of complexity. There ought to be a simple model showing a simple case of evolution–assuming simulations a la genetic algorithms are valid at all. Maybe they are not.
It is interesting that the eonic model, as I point out passing, shows an amusing resemblance to a stylized evolutionary computation. But the only thing left is the computer clock ticking the intervals. The functionality of ‘computation’ is gone, replaced with a strange something operating on the surface of the planet, with three centuries intervals roughly for the prime focus of its action, comprising all variables of culture, in all dimensionalities….
Complexity indeed. The action is completely invisible to the naked eye and shows only relative transformations of cultural entities, these executed by humans from the ‘in between’ of freedom and causality, or in the model terminology ’self-consciousness’.