Observation evolution 101

I've written some articles about the evolution of observers and observations. Here I would like to try and boil those articles down to some basic bullet points indicating the areas which I think most need covering in such articles. Here we go:

1. Evolution of observers and observations follows the the same rules that Darwin originally elucidated;
2. Observation evolution is not a new scientific area requiring new principles and new specialists;
3. The evolution of observers and observations leads to adaptations and goodness of fit;
4. The concept of "observation of the observable" is a useful generalization of "survival of the fittest";
5. The term "anthropic principle" totally sucks: the basic idea has nothing specifically to do with humans;
6. The terms "observer selection" and "observation selection" do not really delimit the subject properly either: there's more to evolution than selection;
7. While the topic has previously been covered by physicists and philosophers, most failed to apply evolutionary theory to it;
8. While "observer selection" is pretty obvious, the idea that observations also obey Darwinian rules often needs spelling out;
9. Observation evolution is not tautological or obvious - there is real, testable science in the area;
10. Putting observers and observation evolution at the heart of Darwinism mirrors what happened with physics a century ago.

References

• Tyler, Tim (2013) Observation of the observable
• Tyler, Tim (2016) The evolution of observers and observations