The origin of evolution in physical systems

Abstract

A tentative outline for a model for the evolution of physical systems is presented. The universal classes of dynamical behaviors found in Cellular Automata experiments provide the basis for introducing the variation- stabilization principle as a synthetic interpretation of these phenomena. It is suggested that biological evolution takes its root in the evolution of physical systems as a particular case of the variation-stabilization principle that occurs at the transition phase between ordered and chaotic regimes. © 2009 ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.