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APPENDIX Z33: The Red Queen Hypothesis

APPENDIX Z33:

The Red Queen

Hypothesis

Classic application to evolution:

from Wikipedia*

“The Red Queen’s Hypothesis, also referred to as Red

Queen, Red Queen’s
race or Red Queen Eect, is an

evolutionary hypothesis. The term is taken from the
Red

Queen’s race in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass

and involves the Red Queen and Alice constantly
running,

yet remaining in the same place.

“Well, in our country,”
said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d

generally get to somewhere else — if you run very
fast for

a long time, as we’ve been doing.”

“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you

see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in
the

same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you
must

run at least twice as fast as that!”

The Red Queen Principle can be stated thus:

In reference to an
evolutionary system, continuing

adaptation [and successive procreation] is needed in

order for a species to maintain its relative tness amongst

the systems being co-evolved with.*

….”

BIRNBAUMIAN application to the cosmic order:

Successive evolutionary and cosmic advance – on
myriad

levels – is necessary for the cosmos not to devolve
into

entropy.*

A parallel to this might be the dynamic of skimming
a rock

along the surface of a pond. The rock must be
projected

within a given angle tolerance and within a given
speed

and acceleration tolerance, in order not to fall
into the

water.

To “defy gravity,” the skimming rock must advance.

Likewise, the cosmic order: To defy entropy, it must

advance… playing-out cosmic potential and
advancing-

towards Extraordinariation.

Wikipedia online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen’s_Hypothesis#cite_note-1

(accessed June 4, 2012)

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REDQUEEN.html

Birnbaumian corollary to the Second Law of
Thermodynamics

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