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> It turns out that when we understand what the plants and animals are doing in detail (through science) we can arrange them in time and space in ways that are
by bch 5y ago
> It turns out that when we understand what the plants and animals are doing in detail (through science) we can arrange them in time and space in ways that are vastly more efficient than what we've been doing these last ~12k years.
This assumes both systems are optimizing for the same thing.
- carapace 5y agoExcellent point! We know that evolution is optimizing for continuation or duration (technically "evolution" isn't a thing, it's a non-volitional chemical tautology with no purpose or intrinsic meaning so "it" cannot optimize, however, in practice, life is optimizing for more and continued life, overcoming radiation, impacts, and it's own consequences (like the advent of oxygen and aerobic metabolism)) so what is the other system optimizing for? (As an aside, is "life is optimizing for more and continued life" a definition for "life"?)