Thanks for engaging! Meaning may be hard to find sometimes, but in contrast to mindless accumulation, even a bit of it (arising from cooperation/coevolution) he

Thanks for engaging! Meaning may be hard to find sometimes, but in contrast to mindless accumulation, even a bit of it (arising from cooperation/coevolution) helps to keep us (philosophically) alive sometimes. I'm closer to an Epicurean than Stoic, but feel less suicidal as I grow older (and understand what some virtuous people before me have been searching for, why they kept searching. Which then brings bittersweet, more sweet than bitter, tears to my eyes) Let me know if/when you get any insights into the time discount thing, especially with regards to cooperative cognition. (One good place to start is what is meant by the global critical time in various related contexts, denoted by T in my earlier notation. E.g. can you have multiple GCTs? The plus and minus is to emphasize that the utility can be discontinuous at these points)