Precisely, but then is there really a purpose for higher-level creatures at all? Or are they just the by-products of increased complexity (read: CA iterations) where failure to possess fatal "flaws" does not reduce organisms to their more simplistic forms? Perhaps the coexistence of different biological complexities in nature supports a natural weeding-out process (Darwin?); however from what I've read of Wolfram, he seems to not support the "survival of the fittest" idea. I'm confused.
»
Reply
Search Serendip
Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate
but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)
Do we have a purpose?
Precisely, but then is there really a purpose for higher-level creatures at all? Or are they just the by-products of increased complexity (read: CA iterations) where failure to possess fatal "flaws" does not reduce organisms to their more simplistic forms? Perhaps the coexistence of different biological complexities in nature supports a natural weeding-out process (Darwin?); however from what I've read of Wolfram, he seems to not support the "survival of the fittest" idea. I'm confused.