Evolutionary biology uses independent but interacting variables to reduce variety and concentrate on goal-directed behaviors with a higher than average probability of success. Some values might be correlated, such as when a cat stalks a bird before lunging, but any combination of values could be used to determine the origin state of the system.
It may be that navigating a blockchain-based economy enabled by the Internet of Things requires a shift in our understanding of markets. What's the difference between the distributed network of intelligent systems out of which our consumer preferences emerge as "smart", and multiscale artificial intelligence?
This section articulates some problem areas that fall within the domain of "general purpose," as taken with the scoop of dogfood that has been my personal life on the internet over the past year. Climate, population and energy, the latter of which I'm choosing to identify as "intelligence"-- as motivated by norm-sending and the potential for self-definition as a mode of observation that defines itself as a unity-- scale the capabilities of Urbit's network to a geopolitical scope of concerns that begins from home.