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I read your post, and am still trying to wrap my head around the content. The best metaphor I could come up with, given my potentially erroneous understanding
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I read your post, and am still trying to wrap my head around the content.
The best metaphor I could come up with, given my potentially erroneous understanding of your thesis is thus:
The purpose of life is a dance competition, the more novel the performance the better.
The beautiful mating dances of exotic jungle birds comes to mind:
https://youtu.be/W7QZnwKqopo https://youtu.be/W7QZnwKqopo
- gooseus 9y agoIt's not really a competition for complexity within life, complexity arises naturally within life as a product of competition. Sometimes more complexity is more fit, and other times the added fragility makes the organism less fit... during the mass extinctions it was primarily the most complex organisms that died. The purpose of life as a whole is to spread this complexity to all parts of the Universe that can support it, so as to raise the overall complexity of the system. Another way to think about it is that life lengthens the path that energy needs to flow through in order to reach equilibrium (maximum entropy).