"Different from the laws of evolution?" Master Van De found that notion rather fresh. He asked, "Different how?"
"Evolution... isn't merely the evolution of living beings. If we broadly extend it to the evolution of all things, it can be seen as a process from simplicity to complexity, right?" Wang Qi said.
Ideas about evolution themselves had also constantly evolved. The "evolution" of Darwin's era and the "evolution" of today were entirely different in many respects aside from a few core elements.
That was because evolutionary theory was not applied solely to biological systems, but was a general theory applicable to all kinds of complex systems.
Van De nodded. "Winning the Dao Seed Award really is different. You can speak so fluently even on this subject."
Wang Qi said, "My teacher, the Hand of the Common People, and Senior Old Man Ji once carried out a very important study: using mathematical thought to explain life, intelligence, and civilization. Among their work, my teacher's most important results should have been Beast Mechanisms and evolutionary algorithms, while Turing was still attempting to construct After Tomorrow's Will. So, I know how the concept of evolution ought to be expressed through mathematical thought."
Master Van De nodded. "Go on."
"An evolved system ought to possess an extremely high degree of freedom. The more it evolves, the more readily it changes, and thus the more readily it can continue evolving." Wang Qi considered for a moment. "Well, take plants as an example. Ancient gymnosperms could not flower; they reproduced asexually across the board. Precisely because of that, their inheritance was exceptionally stable. Many plants were completely identical to their ancestors from hundreds of millions of years ago. But once plants learned to flower, they could undergo enormous changes in just a few thousand years. If