life is a locally reduction entropy mechanism, while maximizing global entropy consciousness is an abstraction meant to allow animals to predict the future before it happens, for example when john was noticing a dear in the long distance but there was a lion nearby he could predict the different possible future chasing it just as bob, when caesar entered the senate, anxious, he could foresee multiple futures in his mind but one he did not eventually foresee with high clarity was the future where is life ended, or is it? maybe he embraced this end, an unconventional end, a polarizing end but now what does it mean to have clarity of prediction? does it means that we can see the surrounding environment of this node in the graph of potential events, that we can foresee the different ways elements in this environment will turn out in case of this potential future happen? how does a mind comes to the realization of clarifying these elements, is it through experience, natural instinct, vicarious learning, fundamental models of the world? how does one acquire experience is clear, by going through is current pattern of thoughts, times its environment, he acquire experience how does one inherit natural instinct? by birth how does one acquire vicarious learning? by mentors, books, environment how does one master fundamental models of the world? a combination of the above, a strong sense of epistemic hygiene, efficient brain nutrition, and tinkering aristotle was a man of both breadth and depth, and his acquired model of the world was built upon tinkering and energetic vicarious learning what comes next now in the realm of consciousness, if evolution, a locally minimizing entropy machine, globally maximizing entropy system, developed consciousness to help its survival machines trick time by seeing beyond the n+1 events up to n+10 what will be the next layer of consciousness, will it be optimising further how far we can see in the future, or something else will emerge? isn't the layer 1 and 2 focused on self-awareness, meaning to be able to observe the system as a whole and optimise itself, while level 3 is about foreseeing the future, then level 4 is about self-replication, or something else, what could it be about? could it be about seeing at a more macro-level, how can we maximize the survivability of the whole, not just the survival machine, but the whole civilization? how can we extend civilization to infinite lifespan? what is next? is even earth bound to survive? how can we survive? isn't energy the bottleneck of everything, followed by computation, health, ? how can humans go to space, are we the bottleneck, how can we transcend our limitations? how can, humans, maximally progress and explore the endless universe? #consciousness #philosophy #entropy