(February 8, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Your evolution set does have disjoint subsets, e.g. replicated vs self-replicators. Hense, valid criticism is applied when you attribute some properties from one subset to all subsets.
Negative Surgenator.
In order for two sets to be disjoint, they must not share any elements. If two sets share elements, they are not disjoint. Replication, selection, and change are common elements of Heywood systems and biological evolution. Biological evolution is not disjointed from Heywood systems.
By pointing out that biological evolution employs reproduction as its means of replication all you do is show that Heywood systems can utilize reproduction.....which I am happy to concede as obvious is obvious.