From the alternative perspective I’ve outlined above, though, the process of instrumentally growing and gaining resources is also simultaneously the process of constructing values.
Reminds me of Daniel Polani’s talk on sensor evolution. The gist is: basically, all viable ways to grow/evolve new sensors for getting the information that would help you achieve your goals get you sensors that deliver OOMs more information than you need, and then this information “has to go somewhere”,[1] so you grow new goals. (Of course, rinse and repeat, in a loop.)
Reminds me of Daniel Polani’s talk on sensor evolution. The gist is: basically, all viable ways to grow/evolve new sensors for getting the information that would help you achieve your goals get you sensors that deliver OOMs more information than you need, and then this information “has to go somewhere”,[1] so you grow new goals. (Of course, rinse and repeat, in a loop.)
I didn’t exactly understand why it had to “go somewhere” or maybe forgot his rationale for believing that it has to go somewhere.