Intelligent Adaptive Systems (WAS RE: [xml-dev] Objections to / u ses of PSVI?)

Adaptation requires extra resources or very precise coordination 
with the environment as it changes.   The issue is the ability 
to identify a pattern and predict changes.  These are markov 
problems.   If thriving in an environment requires instrumenting 
the environment to detect emergence, it is quite straightforward 
for a well-adapted system to evolve with the environment.

Are you discussing intelligent adaptation?

len

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From: Bill de hOra [mailto:]



 
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>Eric Bohlman
> 
> > There's a principle of genetics known as Fisher's 
> Fundamental Theorem 
> > of Natural Selection (after
> > Sir Ronald Fisher) which states that the better adapted an 
> organism is to its current environment, 
> > the less of a change in its environment it can survive.  
> Gerald Weinberg has observed that this 
> > applies to human inventions as much as to natural 
> organisms, and it particularly applies to 
> > programs and the systems they're part of.  

cf Tom de Marco's "Slack". Premise: highly efficient organisations
are not adaptive.