Maximisation Principles and Daisyworld
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
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Abstract
We investigate whether the equilibrium time averaged state of a self-organising system with many internal degrees of freedom, 2D- daisyworld, can be described by optimising a single quantity. Unlike physical systems where a principle of maximum energy production has been observed, Daisyworld follows evolutionary dynamics rather than Hamiltonian dynamics. We find that this is sufficient to invalidate the MEP principle, finding instead a different principle, that the system self-organises to a state which maximises the amount of life.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307567,
title = {Maximisation Principles and Daisyworld},
author = {G. J. Ackland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307567},
year = {2007}
}
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17 pages 6 figures