Adaptation
“A system can adapt if it can learn a new pattern of behaviour after recognising that the environment has changed and that the old pattern of behaviour is not working.”
Adaptation
According to Ashby, adaptation is the process by which a system subjected to environmental disturbances alters its internal organization so as to maintain its essential variables within viable limits. When ordinary regulatory behavior fails, the system undergoes structural change through a process of feedback and selection, which Ashby termed ultrastability. This adaptive capacity does not require intelligent design or foresight, but emerges from trial-and-error regulation.
Detour. A long and winding road to nowhere in particular
A machine constantly sweeps a green ribbon across the fl oor, creating malleable patterns as the green material itself moves the machine. An endless dance between machine and material emerges.
