Smart Evo Devo 40 page April 2009
<p>Apr 18, 2009 2:30 PM
to do this talk John S combined two of his slide sets
1)  about digital twins; AI; the valuecosm;  query length on Google doubling every 6 years
(by  2019  its basically NLP questions... average human query is 11 words... we'll be there
in ten years  (prob before I think))
 
 
CHNOPS is carbon hydrogen nitrogen oxygen phos sulfur ... (about 20 elements that make life possible)
life MUST be carbon based;  autocatalytic
 
DEVELO bottlemencks
 
 
 
 
 
Apr 18, 2009 11:46 AM
 
EVO  (pron eh vo)  processes are stochastic, creative and divergent
evolution is the generation of creativity, change, variation  (the precursor to nat selection)
throw a bunch of stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
EVO is random, chaotic, contingent.
 
 
DEVO  (deh vo)  predictable, robust, conservative   (if you can predict it; its developmental...
like growth of an Oak Tree);  nich construction;
just a few hundred developmental genes  determine our form.
 
IMMUNITY in complex system:  means fast recovery;  they are resilient; 
 
increasing tech autonomy
 
incr  INTIMACY of the human-machine and physical-digital interface
(John lives the carpal space:  space on back of hands and forearms:  free display space:
put oled's there ... always available.
 
Evol. is intellig/info accumulation
Develop is intell/info preservation, stability, predictability.
 
Note:  Development is long term and drives most predictable global patterns.
 
Developments  MAIN ACTOR is the ENVIRONMENT  (adaptation to an environment)  enviro optimization
 
Evo's main actor is a SEED and stochastic search:  generation of possibilities; variation
 
INFO is the Intersection btwn them  :  main actor is the organism:  adaptation
 
slide 19:  Fine-Tuning Problem:   is our universe fine-tuned for life and complexity emergence.
 
slide 26...   Evo:  experimentation/ creation
Devo:  sustaining, protecting
Info:  learning/ adaptation
 
 
slide 27  the three math relationships:
power law for Evo creation  Moore's law
 
sustaining  Devo  Bell curve
 
Learning/adaptation  S curve  (asymptoting to a carrying capacity)
 
The long tail is one way that networks of evol variety fill a niche
 
First world is saturating;  emerging nations are gap closing
 
Global economies are connected and flatenning:  convergence of incomes
 
Hegel:  thesis, antithesis:   Evo Devo theory:
 
process balance btwn innovation and sustainability
 
totalitarian states are overdetermined, sterile, clonal, adaptively weak  (Maoism)
Unregulated Capitalism is chaotic, entropic, volatile, unstable.
 
Republicans and Democrats;   neats and scruffies;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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