Covolving Information Architecture
Covolving information architecture is the active transformation of information-bearing systems through computation, feedback, construction, and propagation. While evolution explains biological change through mechanisms such as mutation, heredity, drift, and selection, covolution describes a broader process in which information systems reorganize themselves and their environments through internal computation, anticipatory modeling, cooperative interaction, and architectural reconstruction.
A biological organism is therefore not merely an object being selected by an external environment. It is an active information architecture that senses, computes, predicts, constructs, and modifies its own conditions of existence. Evolutionary processes are components of covolution, but covolution includes higher-order processes such as cognition, development, niche construction, symvironment engineering, social coordination, technological extension, and cosmological information condensation.
In this sense, infestruction is the time-directed construction of information architecture, and covolution is its central dynamic process. BiOs are living infestructures: embodied information systems that covolve by continuously reorganizing themselves, their relations, and their symvironments toward persistence, expansion, and higher-order organization.
Concise Definition of Covolution:
Covolution is the directed reorganization and propagation of information architectures through active computation, feedback, construction, and interdependence among information-bearing entities.
Evolution and covolution
| Evolution | Covolution |
|---|---|
| Describes change in heritable biological information | Describes change in information architectures across biological, cognitive, social, ecological, and cosmological scales |
| Often modeled as undirected variation plus selection | Includes directionality arising from internal computation, prediction, and construction |
| Mainly focuses on genes, traits, populations, and species | Focuses on organisms, minds, societies, ecosystems, symvironments, and universe-scale information systems |
| Treats the environment largely as a selective context | Treats the environment as co-constructed and entangled with the subject |
| Does not require planning or prediction | Includes planning, prediction, anticipation, and active engineering where such capacities exist |
| Explains adaptation through differential survival and reproduction | Explains adaptive architecture-building through feedback, cooperation, construction, and propagation |
| Mostly biological | Biological, cognitive, technological, social, ecological, and cosmological |
Important correction
Evolutionary theory operates at organismal, population, species, ecological, and macroevolutionary levels.
Evolutionary theory can operate across many biological scales, but it is usually framed around heritable variation, differential reproduction, and selection. Covolution extends the explanatory frame to include active computation, prediction, construction, cooperation, and information-architecture formation across biological and non-biological scales.
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