>According to Thomas S. Ray and others, this may allow for more "open-ended" evolution, in which the dynamics of the feedback between evolutionary and ecologica

>According to Thomas S. Ray and others, this may allow for more "open-ended" evolution, in which the dynamics of the feedback between evolutionary and ecological processes can itself change over time (see evolvability), although this claim has not been realized – like other digital evolution systems, it eventually reaches a point where novelty ceases to be created, and the system at large begins either looping or ceases to 'evolve'. But of course, evolution merely reaches equilibrium, which takes finite time and then stagnates. In real world evolution continues due to change of environment that moves the goalpost of equilibrium, extincts overoptimized species, so evolution can go further. Just add slow change to environment, like ice age or warming.