Is Life a Complex Computational Process? | Aeon Essays
Everything in the Universe, From Wandering Turtles to Falling Rocks, Is Surrounded by ‘Fields’ That Guide and Direct Movement
Daniel W McSheaaeon.co
Highly interacting out-of-equilibrium systems, whether they are trees reacting to the change of seasons or chemical systems processing information about the inputs they receive, teach us that matter can compute. These systems tell us that computation precedes the origins of life just as much as information does. The chemical changes encoded by thes
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The overarching thesis is that we live in a computational universe that is continuously evolving into an increasingly complex, functional, and sentient state. This means that humans are neither a cosmic accident nor the end goal of evolution. Instead, we are an intermediary step on the cosmic evolutionary ladder of becoming.