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Evolutionary Units and Adaptive
Intelligence
Bruce Edmonds
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling
Different Evolutionary Processes
• Evolution of organisms (with brains)
• Evolutionary processes within brains
(neural Darwinism, multiple drafts, neural
networks etc.)
• Memetic evolution between brains
• Evolution of cultures and societies
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling
Some Confusions
• A brain is not a computer and a computer is
not a brain
• External evolutionary processes are the
builder - this is different from internal
processes which may be the blocks
• Internal ‘self-organisation’ and externally
driven evolution are very different
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling
Change due to Internal Interaction
• Social embedding
• Recursive internal grounding of interaction
• Meaning of interactions comes from
emergent ‘culture’
• Individuals increase personal
advantage/computational load
• Whole system can drop in global fitness
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling
Change due to External Evolution
• Division of labour and competition
• External grounding of interactions
• Meaning of interactions comes from
external adaptivity
• Individuals may have lower personal
advantage and higher computational loads
• Whole system seeks maximal fitness
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling
What size might be necessary to
support global brains?
• 1,000,000,000,000 cells in a human of
which about 1 in 1,000 is a neurone
• Each cell is complex with 20,000 genes
• 1,000s of cultures composed of 1,000s of
members
• In environment of 1,000,000,000 species
• Necessary environment 1 (planet earth) out
of ??? candidate planets
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling
Different Analogies
Atom
Molecule
Gene
Organelle
Cell
Organism
Society
Collection of
Societies
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Centre for Policy Modelling
Hyperlink
Web Page
Website
Collection of
Websites
Method of
Organising
Interactions
(e.g. P2P
systems)
Whole Internet
Person
Facilitating the Emergence of a Global
Brain
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Reliable replication of large units
Replication of instructions for processes
Exterior selective forces
Population of these units
Embedding in a real and complex
environment
• Autopoesis of large units
Bruce Edmonds,
Centre for Policy Modelling