My Big TOE: evolutionary constraints

How do complexity, specialization, & organization arise?
- Simpler entities band together cooperatively to form more complex entities and systems that are more powerful and thus more profitable for all participants.
- Groups of entities in an interactive synergistic environment integrate, thus becoming one complex thing--a system that evolves as its parts evolve.
- When systems of systems evolve, complexity, diversity and specialization increase; entropy is decreased by evolving higher orders of organization.

Constraints determine degree and range of diversity
The fewer the constraints, the more diversity there will be. Since biological systems are constrained by survival and propagation, it will not produce a preponderance of weak or non-reproducing organisms. However, within the constraints of evolving survival strategies or modes of locomotion, there were very few constraints and so there are many types of each on planet earth, and variations within each type.

AUO is constrained by the energy/focus/memory required to keep itself changing/evolving
AUO is driven by the Fundamental Process to
1. Improve and develop the potential of its being
2. The quality of its consciousness
3. The level, breadth, and depth of its potential

We've established that AUO is not constrained by survival and propagation. But it may be constrained by the energy or focus required to keep track of all the "gedanken experiments" in process. "To maintain and profitably organize all the information required to support a complex interactive virtual reality would require a good memory--or perhaps a big computer. The existence of limiting factors would inevitably lead a self-modifying computational system (digital organism) to set priorities and develop rules that optimize resource utilization.

Minimal constraints for AUO means increasing complexity
So AUO puts its limited energy (ability to modify its own internal environment) to increasing complexity in relation to itself. This is what is most profitable for it: redefining and improving its overall capacity, quality, and awareness. Awareness leads to ability to modify internal states, leads to modification of internal states to decrease overall entropy.

AUO's motivation and evolutionary purpose flows to us conscious beings, because as above, so below.

**Some of this is similar to Terence McKenna's novelty theory; briefly, that systems tend to increase in complexity over time, that systems are motivated to decrease entropy, that existence consists of dimensions beyond the 3rd and 4th occupied by units of higher consciousness, that humans can move into these dimensions.**