Definition of Covolution
Covolution is a computation-first theory of biological and cosmological evolution in which systems evolve by actively processing, condensing, reorganizing, and propagating information across scales. It reframes evolution not as a merely passive outcome of random variation filtered by external selection, but as an internally driven, feedback-mediated, and relational process of self-organization.
In Covolution, life, organisms, ecosystems, and the universe are treated as informationally active systems.
They compute their own states, predict possible futures, modify their internal architectures, and reshape their surrounding conditions through reciprocal interactions. Evolution therefore occurs through the continuous reconfiguration of informational structures, mediated by feedback loops, mutual causality, cooperative coupling, and entangled interaction edges among entities, or 존체 (in Korean).
Unlike classical neo-Darwinian accounts that foreground competition, random variation, and external environmental filtering, Covolution emphasizes internal computational capacity, proactive adaptation, cooperative optimization, and fractal assemblage.
Organisms and systems do not merely wait to be selected by an external environment; they actively compute, assemble, reorganize, and propagate themselves while also engineering the very environment that constrains and enables them.
A central concept in Covolution is the symvironment: the entangled, co-constructed environment produced by interacting systems.
In this view, the environment is not a detached external selector but a dynamically engineered field of reciprocal influence. Selection, when it occurs, is therefore not outside the organism-system relation; it is embedded within the broader covolutionary computation of organism, environment, and symvironment.
A more compact version:
Covolution is a computation-first theory of evolution in which biological and cosmological systems actively reorganize information, construct their symvironments, and evolve through reciprocal, cooperative, and multi-scale feedback rather than through passive filtering by external selection alone.
One-sentence version:
Covolution is the active, multi-scale computation and reorganization of information by interacting entities that co-construct their own evolutionary conditions.
Covolution does not deny variation or selection, but relocates them within a deeper informational process in which organisms and systems actively compute, construct, and transform the conditions of their own evolution.
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