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evaluated using only the fixed start and end conditions — the equation has no term for how the system got to its starting point, because it does not need one. An adaptive walk is a statement about one step from one place: . a new position built only from the previous position and the local slope of fitness W at that exact point, with no access to the global shape of the landscape and no way to undo once it is fixed. In optimization-theory terms, the first rule is global by construction; the second is a greedy local rule that can only report the best it found from where it started. Physics gets to run the first kind of rule because a photon and a planet have no history…
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Equation 6 · Einstein & Evolution
Physics Optimizes, Evolution Satisfices: Two Kinds of Perfection
This equation states an equality: the expressions on both sides have the same value under the article’s assumptions.
evaluated using only the fixed start and end conditions — the equation has no term for how the system got to its starting point, because it does not need one. An adaptive walk is a statement about one step from one place: . a new position built only from the previous position and the local slope of fitness W at that exact point, with no access to the global shape of the landscape and no way to undo once it is fixed. In optimization-theory terms, the first rule is global by construction; the second is a greedy local rule that can only report the best it found from where it started. Physics gets to run the first kind of rule because a photon and a planet have no history…
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