[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

[Steve Smith]

Glen -
> I couldn't credibly reject epiphenomena and claim it's a labrynth. To boot, I think the purpose of life is to find and explore the most unique niche you can, preferably some subspace nobody else has ever been or will ever be. So, I choose maze ... or worse ... a combinatorial infinity of fractal near-similarity.

Thus the trampling, fertilizing, reseeding, serendipity-doo-dah of a
one-straw style "farm".   More Julia or Mandelbrot than Serpenski but
nevertheless self similar from the scale of microbe and micorhyzome on
up through tree or forest or savannah.

I agree with your "purpose of life" in a yet-more fundamental way... my
pan-consciousness leanings have me saying life itself (and/or
consciousness) is the never-tiring exploration of an as-yet-discovered
fractal landscape of possibilities.   A funky/fecund variation of
Kaufmann's Adjacent Possible?   Reflection (self modeling self?) is in
fact key to consciousness (beyond mere "life"? if they are in fact not
(in some sense) the same thing?).

- Steve