ANNOTATION: Fitness: Millenium Edition
I would just like to add that in defining fitness,
the ability to survive isn't necessarily dependent
on functionality. To use an example, Microsoft
software is more likely to survive based on the
skills of their marketing and business departments
and not necessarily on the superiority of the software
itself. There may be better functioning systems,
but the one that survives does so by connecting itself
to elements outside of that system. Judging solely
within the confines of the system, the fittest may not
survive.
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