This is not a new idea - it's been around for decades now[1] - and the suggestion that it's related to individuality is a distraction that carries a lot of political, psychological, and emotional baggage that is irrelevant to the topic.
There is no individuality in information theory. There are only systems.
It's been debated whether or not there's individuality in evolutionary theory. You don't lose anything - and you may gain a lot - if you stop thinking of evolution as the survival of "fit individuals", and think of it more as the survival of complex ecosystems shaped by a blend of cooperative and competitive strategies with environmental feedback and randomness.
[1] The first example I can find is Schrodinger's book "What is Life?" published in 1944.
The way I see it, at its core, evolution is just a chaotic system made of randomness biased by environment, and at the same time in a feedback loop with it.
Survival of "fit individuals", or "fit ecosystems", or "fit companies", or "fit societies" - it's all the same thing IMO.
There is no individuality in information theory. There are only systems.
It's been debated whether or not there's individuality in evolutionary theory. You don't lose anything - and you may gain a lot - if you stop thinking of evolution as the survival of "fit individuals", and think of it more as the survival of complex ecosystems shaped by a blend of cooperative and competitive strategies with environmental feedback and randomness.
[1] The first example I can find is Schrodinger's book "What is Life?" published in 1944.