I'm not sure if I follow the fitness-driving argument. Without an informational sieve of some kind, isn't it just random entropy? In this case, sure, far from

I'm not sure if I follow the fitness-driving argument. Without an informational sieve of some kind, isn't it just random entropy? In this case, sure, far from equilibrium has more information, but that just means the system has more flexibility to move, not that the system actually inherently contains more information (stored information vs inbound throughput). Unless it's some kind of Nash game, or problem with multiple similarly-deep valleys, I don't see how that would do much more from a fitness perspective other than allow us to effect something approaching an unbiased estimator of the minima density of whatever problem we're working on is. Or...whatever, I'm not quite sure. Anywho, however it is, I'm a bit confused on the last part there.