WHAT DOES COMPUTATION IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUATATION MEAN? OK. That’s interesting.

WHAT DOES COMPUTATION IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUATATION MEAN?
OK. That’s interesting. The computational part requires understanding of the difference between reason, calculation, and computation. A computation can’t predict, or deduce, or infer, it can only do what’s available.

Ontological Status:
– Reason is a fundamental human faculty, and begins with associating and disassociating.
(Search for desirable outcome)
– Calculation is a human-constructed system for problem-solving and involves wayfinding, induction and deduction.
(path to desired outcome)
– Computation extends calculation to machine-based systems where no external knowledge or though is required – just permutation of available operations. (producing an unknown outcome)

Basically the universe, computers, and machines, can’t think (reason or calculate) they can only perform operations available at any given state.

ie, the universe computes by trial and error recombination where successful recombination produces increase in energy and mass -and often more available operations than existed before that recombination.

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