[FRIAM] On old question

[Marcus Daniels]

“But serendipity by definition is a violation of design.  The serendipitous structure is one that makes something happen without being designed to do so.  Translating that into the CP domain, your problem is to write a program that somehow promotes serendipity given that the serendipity involves, inherently, a discontinuity between what you seek and what are likely to find. “

In vivo, there’s the need to ensure an energy source.    In silico, costs can take the form of regularization terms to drive down complexity.
For example, a mechanism that can be described by a tree with 100 nodes might cost 10 times more than one with 10 nodes.  Sometimes complexity is justified, sometimes it just slows down the (virtual) creature.

Marcus

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