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All computer modelling depends on dataspaces, all graphic representation upon transformations. The nature of the dataspace affects the ease with which data can be entered or changed. The amount of information affects the level of sophistication in the modelling and simulation. Dataspaces govern the possible geometry of relationships.

Our new architecture will emerge on the very edge of chaos, where all living things emerge, and it will inevitably share some characteristics of primitive life forms. And from this chaos will emerge order: order not particular, peculiar, odd or contrived, but order generic, typical, natural, fundamental and inevitable - the order of life.

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But perhaps we could go further. The next logical evolutionary step would be to evolve the seeds as well. Would this be possible? Could one set in motion a process of creation which required massive feedback but only one seed - Darwinian evolutionary theory, after all, implies one common root for all species. Perhaps we do not even need one seed? Could we evolve everything from a form of primeval data soup, evolving not just the rules but even the starting configuration? Could it be possible to co-evolve the very environment in which the epigenetic development will occur?

Each point in the dataspace is intelligent in the sense that it knows why it is there and where it is, with a clear awareness also of the spatial relationship of its neighbours. The laws of symmetry and symmetry-breaking are used to control the development of the model from the genetic code. Information flow through the model takes the form of logic fields.

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