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GENERATING SOLUTION VARIATIONS. "The significance of this is that the model can then be used to recognise or generate new examples that have structural similarities with those that have been rewarded in the past but are not identical to them, and relatedly, examples that are far apart in ‘solution space’ can be placed next to each in ‘model space’." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK EVOLUTION. "The basis of evolutionary connectionism is that the simple principle of positive feedback on the organisation of a system, well-understood in the context of neural network models, is also common to the evolution of developmental, ecological and reproductive organisations." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

CONNECTIONISM. "We introduce the term “evolutionary connectionism” to recognise that, by processes that are functionally equivalent to connectionist models of memory and learning, natural selection acting on the relationships within and between evolutionary entities can result in organisations that produce complex system-level behaviours in evolutionary systems and improve the adaptive capabilities of natural selection over time." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

ANALOGOUS SYSTEMS. "We argue that the different consequences of this feedback in evolutionary systems (affecting developmental, ecological and reproductive networks) have specific analogues in different applications of correlation learning (namely, reinforcement correlation learning, unsupervised correlation learning and deep correlation learning, respectively) that help us to understand how natural selection changes the processes of variation, selection and inheritance, respectively, in evolutionary systems." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

GETS INTERESTING. "Although this positive feedback between topology and behaviour (organisation and evolution) is simple when considering individual connections between a pair of entities, the consequences of this principle for the dynamics of larger systems is much more interesting but not immediately obvious." https://lnkd.in/dTqS4ZN View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK. "Variables (phenotypic characters, species populations, evolutionary units) whose behaviours originally co-varied because of a correlated external stimulus (or by accident, or because of selection acting at a lower level) come to have behaviours that co-vary because of their internal interaction structures (i.e., developmental interactions, ecological partnerships or reproductive dependencies)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK CAUSATION. "The consequence of this positive feedback is captured by a principle of correlation becomes causation." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

#3 UNITS. "EVO-EGO: The more often two evolutionary units reproduce together (at the same time/in the same environment) the more selective advantage there is to individual traits that strengthen reproductive dependencies between them. Such reproductive interactions (controlled by individual selection in either participant) cause their reproduction to be more strongly correlated or centralised in future (e.g. via evolution of co-dispersal behaviours or vertical inheritance)." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

#2 SPECIES. "EVO-ECO: The more often that two species populations grow to high-density together (at the same time/in the same environment) the more selective advantage there is for individual traits that strengthen ecological interactions between them. These interactions change in a way that causes their population growth to be more correlated in future, e.g. via reductions to competitive interactions between them." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

#1 GENES. "EVO-DEVO: The more often that two genes are selected together (at the same time/in the same environment) the more selective advantage there is to strengthening developmental interactions between them. This organisational change causes their expression in the phenotype to be correlated in future (e.g. via an increase in the gene-regulatory connection between them." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn