Evolving Emergent Technology Through Simulation

I have often recommended biomimicry as a means of providing existing technological solutions. This would somehow imply that the biological and technological aren't one and the same. In fact, that is not the case. Producing new DNA solutions through biotechnology is a technological process, few would dispute that even cloning which uses identical DNA is a technology. If you reproduce a biological organism exactly, and the final product of your technology is a biological organism, does it not follow that this organism is technology? If you agree, then it is a simple step of seeing that the identical copy from which this cloned organism was produced, is technology as well. Thus all biology is technology.

Now. Because biology is technology, and because evolution is the field in which this technology is perfected and produced to fit particular environmental constraints, it naturally follows that firstly, technology evolves due to environmental constraints, secondly it evolves like the evolutionary biological counterparts due to the ecosystem of existing technologies and exists within that ecosystem, thirdly to a significant extent the evolutionary process is emergent and autonomous both for biological organisms and for technology.

So why not instead of just copying read made biological examples to produce technologies, create a simulation where technologies given particular constraints are produced through an evolutionary simulation process until a desired product that fits the set ecosystem perfectly is created? For instance, let us say a road vehicle is to be produced and maximum and minimum body sizes of potential customers along with their anthropomorphic properties are set as parameters for the simulation. Other constraints can be placed, like width of the road, length of parking spaces, height of garages, and other such things. Maybe the maximum allowed speed limit should be considered as something the vehicle should not be made to significantly exceed?

The point here is that technologies can be evolved from existing parameters and technological ecosystems, to produce desired outcomes through simulation, not necessarily through human innovation. The simulation should be that of many different species of products, which in turn will have different qualities and parameters to fit the particular ecosystem. The constraints in the simulation can be changed, to get better outcomes and fine tune the final simulated product. The design can be made global to fit all human consumers, or can be made to fit existing human technology like for instance navigation systems fit cars or planes, or these can be stand alone products that interact with the natural environment for a particular purpose.

My evolving emergent technology through simulation solution works for biological, mechanical, robotic and cybernetic technologies. Consider that for simulation of biological organisms this approach can be taken in two ways, firstly alerting DNA to see how organisms will come out and testing them, or simulating the design of organisms and programming them with DNA to make them when they have desired parameters. In case of cybernetic programs consider a virus that is meant to hack a particular system. Let us say a number of viruses are simulated, evolved, tweaked and tested against the platform they are meant to infiltrate, instead of finding wholes in it, as in a natural ecosystem with bacteria and viruses that evolve until one achieves success in infection, those that succeed are the ones that will proliferate... and deliver their cargo. When it comes to kitchen appliances and gadgets for the fridge... you can stick with Quirky, an innovation platform which by the way... was also my idea.