This may have been done before, but a while ago I realied that natural selection is not just limited to the realms of nature. It twigged with me from the stability of free protons and neutrons. Why is our world made up primarily of protons? Purely because they are more stable, with a half life much longer than the age of the universe. And thats what it is, things survive because they are more stable. The system they are in favours them. And its not even limited to physical phenonom, its linked to philosophical ideas too. Democracy survives because it can cope with more entropy, a totalitarian dictatorship requires more order, it is by definition less stable, therefore is less prevalent.
We can think of these compared to simple systems of a closed nature. Imagine a box of particles. We can define patterns of the movement of these particles. We could then assess the predicted prevelance of such patterns based on how stable or how little entropy they require. Alternatively the prevelance of a pattern could be predicted by how general its definition is. For example particles spread out in a well defined and non random pattern will be rare. For physical systems it is easy to imagine as this is what these things are, protons and neutrons are a collection of quarks on which various forces act. Ideas and the prevelance of ideas are just the interaction between people and what they cause the people to do. Natural selection is just the prevelance of very complex patterns or atoms, in the form of a rabbit or a bacteria. The patterns are very prevelant as they are so complex they can roughly reproduce themselves.
Think of democracy, the particles in the system can fly around as they wish, with rulers and rules changing at the will of all the particles. Not only that but the definition is more broad too. A totalitarian government is one government and one cabinet. Democracy comes in the form of many different governments with varying styles. You can imagine democracy as a system that is energetic, changable but still by definition democracy. A dictator requires everyone to keep in line, like all the particles need to be nearly still or in a very ordered way. One small collision could cause the system to lose its required order. Therefore, democracies are much more stable.
Maybe someone has made the point before, I care little, but it is interesting none the less. Natural selection should be a physical/philosophical law, the prevelance of a pattern is related to its stability. It's pretty obvious when you put it like that, although I guess natural selection is too.
We can think of these compared to simple systems of a closed nature. Imagine a box of particles. We can define patterns of the movement of these particles. We could then assess the predicted prevelance of such patterns based on how stable or how little entropy they require. Alternatively the prevelance of a pattern could be predicted by how general its definition is. For example particles spread out in a well defined and non random pattern will be rare. For physical systems it is easy to imagine as this is what these things are, protons and neutrons are a collection of quarks on which various forces act. Ideas and the prevelance of ideas are just the interaction between people and what they cause the people to do. Natural selection is just the prevelance of very complex patterns or atoms, in the form of a rabbit or a bacteria. The patterns are very prevelant as they are so complex they can roughly reproduce themselves.
Think of democracy, the particles in the system can fly around as they wish, with rulers and rules changing at the will of all the particles. Not only that but the definition is more broad too. A totalitarian government is one government and one cabinet. Democracy comes in the form of many different governments with varying styles. You can imagine democracy as a system that is energetic, changable but still by definition democracy. A dictator requires everyone to keep in line, like all the particles need to be nearly still or in a very ordered way. One small collision could cause the system to lose its required order. Therefore, democracies are much more stable.
Maybe someone has made the point before, I care little, but it is interesting none the less. Natural selection should be a physical/philosophical law, the prevelance of a pattern is related to its stability. It's pretty obvious when you put it like that, although I guess natural selection is too.
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