Roger writes: “If we perceived things solely according to their fitness, then how do we perceive things which have multiple fitnesses, where different aspects of fitness vary to different schedules, where combinations of things have different fitnesses than the things met independently, where some things imitate other things, and so on.”
To select with regard to multiple fitnesses, it is necessary to have rank orderings for each and to retain the union of some fraction of the top performing ones. That means more resources, having more special snowflakes and more kinds of special snowflakes. But usually we just get frustrated and get some lunatic to create a giant extinction event and call it good. Marcus
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