Ascertain the prevalence of emergent sophisticated data-processing algorithms in complex systems

Ascertain how often complex natural systems emergently discover and implement sophisticated data-processing algorithms, such as Lempel–Ziv–Welch compression.

Background

In contrasting Assembly Theory with compression-based measures, the authors question the relevance of algorithmic compression to natural systems that may not perform such operations.

They explicitly state uncertainty about the extent to which complex systems might independently discover sophisticated algorithms like LZW, representing an open question about the emergence of computational strategies in nature.