Expanding the Adjacent Possible

Candidate Law #4:

Expanding the Adjacent Possible in a Self-Organized Critical Way

Autonomous agents will evolve such that causally local communities are on a generalized "subcritical-supracritical boundary" exhibiting a generalized self-organized critical average for the sustained expansion of the adjacent possible of the effective phase space of the community.
--Stuart Kauffman

See also Math and Candidate Laws for Coevolving Systems

— Scotus - 02 Jun 2002