A tumor is a part of an organism that has mutated to play a much shorter game than the organism itself. Humanity seems to be a tumor on the biosphere. The industrial revolution is that happy moment when the host was switched to mostly delivering nutrients to the tumor.
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It's unclear whether evolution optimizes for order, or complexity, or anything else. Don't forget, complexity could only go in one direction following abiogenesis!
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Been reading stuff on evolution now. Evidently it's not as clear what's going on there as I thought. Seriously wish highschools integrated a level of ambiguity in their teachings. Instead we get a low level understanding of everything and think humans have it all figured out
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