Thank you for this comment Chantiel. Yes, a container that engineered to evaporate water poured anywhere into it and condense it into a central area would be an optimizing system by my definition. That is a bit like a ball rolling down a hill, which is also an optimizing system and also has nothing resembling agency. I am
The bottle cap example was actually about putting a bottle cap onto a bottle and asking whether, since the water now stays inside the bottle, it should be considered an optimizer. I pointed out that this would not qualify as an optimizing system because if you moved a water molecule from the bottle and place it outside the bottle, the bottle cap would not act to put it back inside.
Thank you for this comment Chantiel. Yes, a container that engineered to evaporate water poured anywhere into it and condense it into a central area would be an optimizing system by my definition. That is a bit like a ball rolling down a hill, which is also an optimizing system and also has nothing resembling agency. I am
The bottle cap example was actually about putting a bottle cap onto a bottle and asking whether, since the water now stays inside the bottle, it should be considered an optimizer. I pointed out that this would not qualify as an optimizing system because if you moved a water molecule from the bottle and place it outside the bottle, the bottle cap would not act to put it back inside.