This is a great lecture, some of the political ideas in the last half hour seem familiar 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OtqtKnWriCM …
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You can choose see the universe either way: (1) as fundamentally dumb (w/ emergence)...
or (2) as having the rudiments of intelligence at a fundamental level (e.g., electrons perform computations)
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yes. I'm ok with the universe being intelligent at a mythic level, but I can't see purpose or inevitability.
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exactly. That was my problem with Watts for many years: I (mis)took him for preaching purpose/inevitability/etc.
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