[FRIAM] The God Equation

[Marcus Daniels]

Humans might be capable of deciding how to allocate energy.  Or we might just infest the solar system and beyond, paving over everything.    With a HPC/complexity mindset, I tend to prefer big and direct approaches, myself.   I would be happy to drive around 1000hp electric hummer.   More motive to get fusion working!

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 12:31 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The God Equation


Marcus  wrote:
That was Glen.   (My explanation is just that we have limited short term memory and can’t tolerate any other representation than terribly compressed forms.   So it is hard to gain confidence in simulations because we can’t get them entirely in our heads, nor prove them correct, nor reason very effectively about how mutations will change their behavior.   The natural world has no such hesitation.)

<not-snark> I wonder if perhaps that "the natural world" *does* have such hesitation in the sense you cop to here...  and suggest that when this happens it is exactly what we call "life".   We fat-brained humans with elaborate language are just the (known) apex of this process that bootstraps itself up some kind of tower-of-babel style complexity (to increase our ability to hold more and more and more qualitatively and quantitatively "in our heads").   Clay tablets unto nanodots (and beyond)  and proto-abacii unto quantum computers (and beyond) represent our progress toward extending our phenotypes represent our attempts to expand (transcend?) the reasons for our hesitation.

Is "life itself" and "consciousness" by extension, somehow the urge (an inevitable self-organizing trend itself?) toward a particular type of self-organization?

</not snark>

- Steve


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