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The continuity of life and its evolution, we proposed, emerge from aninteractive group process manifested in networks of interaction. We term thisprocess \textit{survival-of-the-fitted}. Here, we reason that survival of thefitted results from a natural computational process we term \textit{naturalautoencoding}. Natural autoencoding works by retaining repeating biologicalinteractions while non-repeatable interactions disappear. (1) We define aspecies by its \textit{species interaction code}, which consists of a compactdescription of the repeating interactions of species organisms with theirexternal and internal environments. Species interaction codes are descriptionsrecorded in the biological infrastructure that enables repeating interactions.Encoding and decoding are interwoven. (2) Evolution proceeds by naturalautoencoding of sustained changes in species interaction codes. DNA is only oneelement in natural autoencoding. (3) Natural autoencoding accounts for theparadox of genome randomization in sexual reproduction -- recombined genomesare analogous to the diversified inputs required for artificial autoencoding.The increase in entropy generated by genome randomization compensates for thedecrease in entropy generated by organized life. (4) Natural autoencoding andartificial autoencoding algorithms manifest defined similarities anddifferences. Recognition of the importance of fittedness could well serve thefuture of a humanly livable biosphere.

Evolution is Driven by Natural Autoencoding: Reframing Species, Interaction Codes, Cooperation, and Sexual Reproduction