“The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.”
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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
