> It's hard not to feel that there is some optimal thing that we are heading towards, the solution to the question posed by reality. depends how optimistic/pes

> It's hard not to feel that there is some optimal thing that we are heading towards, the solution to the question posed by reality. depends how optimistic/pessimistic you are. I find it far more likely that humans will eventually hit some local maximum in a trough too deep to ever escape.