[floobynewb]

I suppose the question is: Are there appropriate abstractions which would bring conceptual simplicity to these systems? I find it hard to believe that there is not. A system which does not have such a property is more difficult for natural selection to operate upon. The changes which are likely to happen to a lineage over the course of time are likely to have evolved to be likely to move the lineage closer to a locally optimal phenotype. I do not think that a system which is incompressible, would display such dynamics, the system would be chaotic and small changes in the genotype would lead to divergent phenotypes wrt the fitness landscape. Perhaps the appropriate abstractions are spread out both temporaly and spatially.