#WR_Ashby in his “Design for a Brain” writes about the importance of the #preservation of #adaptations. Following his ideas I’ve made this little experiment using a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet that shows three different scenarios:
When re-tossing all of the 10 coins every time like in the first case there is no preservation of “1s” whatsoever. Every new toss starts from scratch.
In the second case, each coin is tossed separately until it shows “1” when the tosser moves on tossing the next coin until all 10 show “1” which usually happens around the 10th tossing.
In case #3 only the remaining “0s” of the previous toss are re-thrown until all coins show a “1” which is by far the most efficient way of preservation, needing less than half of the time and ending in about 4 tosses.
A few “gems” from #WR_Ashby on the “accumulation of adaptations”:
I recommend reading the whole book ($20 on Amazon) but if not, here is a good overview of some interesting parts:
https://www.panarchy.org/ashby/adaptation.1960.html