Sloman, Aaron. “TENTATIVE NON-MATHEMATICAL THOUGHTS ON ENTROPY, EVOLUTION, AND CONSTRUCTION-KITS.”
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Different construction kits (meccano, lego, tinker-toy, geomagnet, fischertechnik, plasticine,
foldable paper, scissors+glue+paper, wet sand, etc.) have different kinds of generative power for
assembling static or dynamic structures and processes, on different scales. For a general
introduction to the idea that properties of a construction-kit can determine/explain a range of
possible structures and processes see the companion papers on Explaining Possibilities and
Construction kits for evolution.