If you think the system has a purpose, you really believe that the system is inside of a story
@morcoswins I believe the universe is an abstract system that behaves according to certain math, so no purpose or narrative or plot.
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@morcoswins humans or other computational agents with utility functions can be said to have purposes though. -
@morcoswins but the Q "what is the meaning of life" only makes sense if life is a kind of story, with a point to it. Humans love stories.
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