Scientists and philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law

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3 pointsjoe__f2 comments

Good piece but one thing I hope the LLM revolution brings is a more uniform understanding of what a mental model is, and ultimately how to make better- still clickbaity, ofc- headlines.

Nature is not missing an evolutionary law. It's like a nonsensical sentence.

Our mental model for evolution is missing something, a generative explanation for the rise of structured complexity.

And is it a law? Something humans make that apply to human endeavors? Or is it a theory? Something generative that humans articulate that explains data and makes testable predictions?

"Science and philsophers identify evolutionary theory enhancement" is still pretty clickbaity, but more accurate.

Well, I think the point was that our understanding of nature was missing a law. If you don't like this usage of the word law then that's up to you, but it is standard as in 'Newton's Third Law of Motion'. I'd take your 'Something generative [...]' to be the definition of the word 'law' in this case.

I think maybe 'discover fundamental new laws of evolution' for the title? It seems pretty groundbreaking to me it's showing that evolution exists across all scales and phenomena and is not unique to biology.

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