Symbiogenesis
The formation of a new kind of replicating entity through a mutually beneficial relationship between pre-existing replicating entities.
Darwinan evolution vs symbiotic revolution
Classical darwinism (mutation + selection = branching) only fine-tunes within an existing space but doesn’t explain why life gets more complex over time.
Symbiogenesis = merging of replicators. The composite is more complex than its parts (emergence, composition adds information), opening a new design space.
This happens at every scale (chemistry → cells → multicellularity → societies; abstraction layers).
In bff, complexity doesn’t come from random mutation; it comes from smaller replicators fusing into larger ones that can host yet more sub-replicators.
Cooperation of parts to become more dynamically stable gives evolution an arrow through time (→ complexification).
Perhaps after reading this paper isntead of an ugly embed i can make a proper bridge note between symbiogenesis / complexification / perhaps a note on the revolution / evolutionary transition thing. Idk.
Symbiogenesis → greater computational power.
Symbiogenesis is massively parallel.
single-celled → multi-cellular
might thoughts be like DNA? ( cognitive chunking)
What’s the interface? How to improve modularity? Dynamic stability … via consciousness the coherence inducer?
most new ideas are compositions of existing ones