npub15s…e8xgu on Nostr: Meaningful human existence is to expand into the unknown. Through exploration, ...
Meaningful human existence is to expand into the unknown. Through exploration, technology, children, and philosophy.
This is grounded in the fact that humans are evolutionary beings, and evolution is an algorithm for finding ever more usable energy and transforming it into evolutionary information.
-this means happiness is an insidiously misleading goal
-evolution exploring niches, neurons growing, breadth-first design, engineering, and all mental effort. They fractally all are the same algorithm. Expand, reinforce, and prune. Lightning, slime molds, it appears everywhere. Greedy graph-search is evolution, it is brains, it is intelligence, and it underlies all kinds of physics and life. I think the most fundamental articulation is that it's the optimal algorithm for expanding with only local knowledge (or feedback). It's an information-theoretic reality.
This is grounded in the fact that humans are evolutionary beings, and evolution is an algorithm for finding ever more usable energy and transforming it into evolutionary information.
-this means happiness is an insidiously misleading goal
-evolution exploring niches, neurons growing, breadth-first design, engineering, and all mental effort. They fractally all are the same algorithm. Expand, reinforce, and prune. Lightning, slime molds, it appears everywhere. Greedy graph-search is evolution, it is brains, it is intelligence, and it underlies all kinds of physics and life. I think the most fundamental articulation is that it's the optimal algorithm for expanding with only local knowledge (or feedback). It's an information-theoretic reality.