It might be more apt a metaphor than it seems...? Resonant orbits might not be natural selection, but they might participate in a form of thermodynamic selecti

It might be more apt a metaphor than it seems...? Resonant orbits might not be natural selection, but they might participate in a form of thermodynamic selection: two simple forms and structures selecting for and reinforcing one another. They are both subsets of the same thermodynamic processes of structures/arrangements sticking arouns when they mutually support one another creating persistence in a chaotic system My understanding is that some folks believe there are similar mechanisms underlying the emergence of both -- a generalized form of selection between mutually reinforcing structures that encode elements of prediction of the chaotic environment they reside in, be that the periodicity of orbits (that "know* a stable path that will reasonably persist) or life itself (that have similar baked in prediction abilities we perceive subjectively as consciousness). Disclaimer: biochemist, technologist and armchair follower of complexity science