> where also some functionality serendipitously adapts/fits/evolves into one of those modes without specific regard about where it semantically sits in this hie

> where also some functionality serendipitously adapts/fits/evolves into one of those modes without specific regard about where it semantically sits in this hierarchy of complexity. That did make sense, I oversimplified your reduction on first pass :D yea, I agree, nice generalization. And I like this idea re: it not caring where it sits. edit how to even place it on a linear complexity scale anyway... > it started sounding a bit like unit testing In the book I mentioned elsewhere in the thread (Why we sleep), there are some interesting theories related to this... sifting through memories, colliding them together, decisions being made on what to keep, and so on. I sometimes wonder if REM sleep as we experience it is, in part, the phenomenological perception of a kind of encoding and compression process, looking from the inside, as it were. Well, in a way I didn't say much I guess, because you can model so many things as a type of compression :D but anyway. Yea, cool stuff...