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This was also my question. Obviously there should be some regularity for an organism to form. But lets assume that the environment for an organism is indistin
by eveningcoffee 6y ago
This was also my question.
Obviously there should be some regularity for an organism to form.
But lets assume that the environment for an organism is indistinguishable from the random noise.
Then the only strategy the organism can form is to randomly sample the environment for food.
If there is enough food in the environment then the organism survives, if not then it does not survive.
Therefor it is disproven that an organisms can survive only in predictable environments.
It could be probably displayed that any more complex strategy could be not developed though.
- canjobear 6y agoIf the environment is noisy at a low-enough level then it won't have enough stability for there to be consistently-metabolizable molecules around at all.
- jkhdigital 6y agoExcept that organisms are generally not ergodic systems, so they are subject to gambler’s ruin. Even with “enough” food the probability of non-survival is non-zero and asymptotically increasing over time.