Now for how E causes C I ve only covered the sidestep aspects of the E word, now consider how the crank is turned, at least in the best known version of evolution. We can simulate the process in computers. And the brain has the neural circuitry to run the same sort of improvement of quality process on the time scale of milliseconds to minutes. Consider process abstractly, not just its biological exemplars. The pattern is copied .
Variant patterns arise .
Leave out any one, process halts. Stabilizing vs. speeding up Darwinism Potential wells can stabilize, prevent progress as in living fossils. And while not essential, there are four catalysts. Status of Darwin Machine in brain Went searching for circuitry that could support a Darwinian copying competitions in the brain. Superficial layers of neocortex has the right wiring to do it, as I explain in The Cerebral Code .