Cryptographic Nature
Populations and Evolution
2015-05-08 v1
Abstract
I consider the many ways in which evolved information-flows are restricted and metabolic resources protected and hidden -- the thesis of living phenomena as evolutionary cryptosystems. I present the information theory of secrecy systems and discuss mechanisms acquired by evolved lineages that encrypt sensitive heritable information with random keys. I explore the idea that complexity science is a cryptographic discipline as "frozen accidents", or various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive dynamics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.01744,
title = {Cryptographic Nature},
author = {David Krakauer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01744},
year = {2015}
}