## The physicalist
Guillaume Verdon's view on the meaning of life is deeply rooted in [[Thermodynamics|thermodynamics]]. He believes that thermodynamics is the reason we exist and has led to the formation of life, civilization, evolution of technologies, and growth of civilization. He also mentions the [[Anthropic principle|anthropic principle]], which suggests that we exist in a universe that allows for life.
He further speculates on the possibility of engineering new universes or creating pocket universes, setting the hyper-parameters so there is some mutual information between our existence in that universe, and we'd be somewhat its parents.
He also believes that we, like an LLM, seek to minimize cross entropy between our internal model and the world. We seek to minimize the statistical divergence between our predictions and the world, and the world itself.
In essence, Verdon sees the meaning of life as a quest to understand and navigate the world better, to steer it or steer us through it. This capability has evolved because the better we can predict the world, the better we can capture utility, or free energy towards our own sustenance and growth1
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