Glen - > I couldn't credibly reject epiphenomena and claim it's a labrynth. To boot, I > think the purpose of life is to find and explore the most unique niche you > can, preferably some subspace nobody else has ever been or will ever be. So, > I choose maze ... or worse ... a combinatorial infinity of fractal > near-similarity.
Thus the trampling, fertilizing, reseeding, serendipity-doo-dah of a one-straw style "farm". More Julia or Mandelbrot than Serpenski but nevertheless self similar from the scale of microbe and micorhyzome on up through tree or forest or savannah. I agree with your "purpose of life" in a yet-more fundamental way... my pan-consciousness leanings have me saying life itself (and/or consciousness) is the never-tiring exploration of an as-yet-discovered fractal landscape of possibilities. A funky/fecund variation of Kaufmann's Adjacent Possible? Reflection (self modeling self?) is in fact key to consciousness (beyond mere "life"? if they are in fact not (in some sense) the same thing?). - Steve .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
