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You completely ignored the "4e. What Space Are We Navigating?" and are thinking in terms of navigating evolutionary fitness/random mutation. I can see how our l
by rini17 5y ago
You completely ignored the "4e. What Space Are We Navigating?" and are thinking in terms of navigating evolutionary fitness/random mutation. I can see how our large brains create a new kind of virtual space we move around in, and it is unlike either of the above.
- visarga 5y agoWe're navigating "survival space", the space of all possibilities of existence in the future, under limited resources. It's pretty open-ended, we don't know what we could be, the peaks of evolution are clouded and we don't know if any particular path leads to it or is a detour. Only when you're close enough can you make progress by going directly towards the target.
- rini17 5y agoI see survival space like an outer hard boundary. Brain can and in reality often makes its own vaguely related space and we navigate it oblivious to the hard survival boundaries..till they hit us.
- visarga 5y agoYes, that's what I think happens. The more sheltered we are, the more divorced from reality our thinking can be.