Evolution

If you want to make a living flower, you don’t build it - you grow it from the seed. Christopher Alexander.

• Evolution is a behavior that emerges in any system that has:
  1. Mutation
  2. Heredity
  3. Selection
• Evolutionary systems often generate unexpected solutions. Nature selects for good enough. It affects almost everything (life, [[ideas]], communities, [[systems]], …).
  • Nature ended up: resilient to disturbances, decentralized, redundant, diverse, and self-healing.
• Every [[culture]] is the gradual accumulation of useful environmental adaptations combined with random memetic drift.
• [[Systems]] that evolve organically are usually, but not always, well-adapted to their purpose. Cultures, ancient traditions, and long-lasting institutions contain irreplaceable wisdom that’s hard to pin down if you’re designing them from scratch.