Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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The Origins of Life
When there's more information, you know more. But what you're really doing is sort of preventing it from taking on many other states. So in thinking about the emergence of life and the complexification of life, where does that end to come from? Can it be encoded directly in the genome or is it sort of coming from somewhere else? Well, so the first point is that it had to emerge initially, right? The origins of life is actually about the origins of indirectiveness. And the end is to maintain the ability to have indirectiveness. That is the case for all life. In fact, that's the, you might say, the beginning of what we want to call self
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