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Instance Specification Universal Darwinism (Campbell, J)
In this chapter we describe a ‘universal Darwinism’ framework which proposes the following. The observable universe results from two types of processes: (1) disorder’s tendency to increase in isolated systems(the second law of thermodynamics), and (2) Darwinian selection, which produces orderly entities that can withstand the second law. Darwinian processes generate complex order not just in the biological domain but in all five domains of nature. These domains exist in a nested hierarchy as follows (in order of decreasing fundamentalness): cosmological, quantum, biological, neural, and cultural.Each qualifies as a distinct domain because each is characterized by a distinct ‘knowledge repository’, that is, a cumulative store of information about existence requirements in that domain (e.g. in the biological domain,a genome)
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