Humans Are Purpose Machines
January 30, 2024•177 words
We can think of ourselves - humans - as components in a larger system comprised of digital and biological subsystems. Together with our phones we move meat sacks here and there, gather money, make new meat sacks and phones. There are also manufacturing subsystems - printers, 3D printers, and so on.
To those larger systems, a human is a peripheral. Our use cases are meaning, identity, and purpose.
We have identity in a way that programs don't. Or, rather, we are pretty good at identity (modul...
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