And of course there’s nothing surprising about a thermostat. It’s not complex enough to be hard to predict and thus trigger the vital force illusion. But I could write am only-slightly more complex peice of match that both kept the temperature withing acertain range, and varied it withing that range in a way that was a chaotic system (so one where the climate is predicable but the weather is not), and then it would fulfill both requirements of the vital force illusion. (Which to me sounds like a hardcoded instinctive algorithm for recognizing living agentic cretures and their influence).
And of course there’s nothing surprising about a thermostat. It’s not complex enough to be hard to predict and thus trigger the vital force illusion. But I could write am only-slightly more complex peice of match that both kept the temperature withing acertain range, and varied it withing that range in a way that was a chaotic system (so one where the climate is predicable but the weather is not), and then it would fulfill both requirements of the vital force illusion. (Which to me sounds like a hardcoded instinctive algorithm for recognizing living agentic cretures and their influence).