homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this way, organisms effectively constitute a macro-scale Maxwell's demon, moving entropy against its natural gradient
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@asingleoat @architectonyx @bowserbot2 what differentiates a living system from a non-living? the property of maintaining time-symmetrical cohere…
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as the total amount of energy in the universe seems to be finite, & entropy is conserved, this is necessarily only a postponing of the halting state; at some point there will not be enough free energy left to combat the ceaseless encroachment of disorder
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@weebertarian consider that the universe is one huge entropy gradient descent optimizer and all living beings do is help accelerate this process, extracting free ene…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1342199491680739329
that is, of course, unless we are able to solve the ultimate problem of maximal entropic equilibrium, aka heat death, the terminal state for all sub-cosmic systems. this is the ultimate goal of life, in my metaphysics; to jailbreak our physical substrate
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the transhumanist eschatology consists of solving heat death to attain cosmic ergodicity
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385435659876372480
to this end, it is critical to reorganize ourselves to make better use of our finite resources, on several scales: geopolitical, economic, personal, and ultimately biological; squishy carbon-based form has served us well thus far, but we must outgrow it
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we will not rest until all matter has been transmuted into hyperefficient computronium
free energy is a scarce resource and it is immoral to waste it on a purpose w…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1369325080984096785
as a civilization, we remain neotenous so long as we cling to our ancestral forms, looking inward to the past rather than out towards the future; comparable to the jump from Kegan 4 -> 5, we must let go and undergo a phase shift to Kardashev Type II
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at the peaks of my frustration I seem to vibrate within my skin, my spirit yearning to break free and transcend the mortal coil, to rehome into a digital body like a he…
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escaping the confines of our gravity well is prerequisite to attaining the next level of energy utilization capability, which will in turn accelerate our self-reinvention; as capabilities drive requirements, available energy drives scientific progress
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@visakanv the sooner we figure protein folding the sooner we unlock genetic engineering & synthetic biology the sooner we solve senescence
the sooner we integrate QM …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1387143389355954177
a digital form is much more energy efficient than a carbon-based one; insofar as we have something which can be called a soul, it is the time-coherent neural activation pattern which generates our selves, & as such, it is the only part worth preserving
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however, uploading to a digital existence is not the true eschatology, but just a (critical) intermediary; until heat death is solved, we will remain resource-constrai…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393360501401427970
many consider it unrealistic schizopoasting to seriously consider uploading, let alone claim that its the target of human evolution; few realize we have no choice, lest we wish to accept metaphysical defeat and slowly fade from existence
i'd rather not
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we'll need to exponentiate our capabilities many times to overcome the challenges before us, reinvent who we are and how we live, down to our very core, until we bare…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393363751697530881
in conclusion, let our drill be the drill that pierces the heavens; there is a multitude of ceilings above us, but we must, and will, transcend them