Sublime

human brain – quite unlike a genome – is itself an arena of intense variation, selection and competition.

subject to energy conservation and other constraints.

This shared goal—evading equilibrium—harmonizes our collective activity,

here: these very actions of agents’ exploring, changing, adapting, and experimenting further change the outcome, and they’d have to then re-adapt and re-adjust.

we now possess some extremely deep theories about the structure of reality.

Each of the systems interacts with its environment in a game-like way: sequences of action (“moves”) occasionally produce payoff, special inputs that provide the system with the wherewithal for continued existence and adaptation.

Societies that adopt innovative, predictive, and adaptive models designed around a significant, ongoing redistribution of global resources will be most likely to survive in the future.

Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.