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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

ANALOGOUS SYSTEMS. "With the rise of synthetic biology, evolutionary robotics, artificial life and advanced simulations, novel perspectives to these problems have led to a rather interesting scenario, where not only the major transitions can be studied or even reproduced, but even new ones might be potentially identified. In both cases, transitions can be understood in terms of phase transitions, as defined in physics." https://lnkd.in/d94S2CY View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. "Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesis. We can create a new multi-cellular system by engineering new cell–cell signals on single cells. Similarly, a proto-grammar can emerge in a group of interacting, evolvable robots. These are synthetic transitions that are not necessarily related to standard evolutionary paths, but they do involve ways to generate major innovations starting from simpler systems." https://lnkd.in/d94S2CY View in LinkedIn

TRANSITION POINT. "The bifunctionality of Rubisco as both a photosynthetic enzyme and a reserve of mobilizable N is reflected in the dual role of foliage: leaves are organs of storage as well as assimilation, and the initiation of senescence may be considered to be the point of transition from C to N source." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn