> Titled the "law of increasing functional information," it holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks like atoms or cells, and that processes exist - such as cellular mutation - that generate many different configurations. Evolution occurs, it holds, when these various configurations are subject to selection for useful functions.
The paper:
On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120