The word “grow” when applied to non-living things means grow in size, encompassing more atoms.
With embodied living things it means both transformative change and growth in size.
But with disembodied living things like “minds” it only means transformative change. That’s a pity.
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Interestingly, for computer code we use grow like it’s atoms. Number of lines.
For anthropomorphized non-living things like cities or weather grow can sometimes connote change/transform but us still primarily about size.
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“Evolve” is a more complex word than grow/change/transform. I think of it as “increase in size due to competitive success resulting from transformative change”
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I like to think of growth as always having an increasing size component. For disembodied things like minds the obvious thing that grows is memory.
Imagine a creature exactly like humans but with a memory organ that grows with its contents. Like a gradually inflating balloon.
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Balloon is an interesting metaphor. Are your memories lighter than the present, lifting you up (helium balloon memories) or heavier than the present, weighing you down (water balloon memories)
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