I want you all to pay close attention to these kind of discussions because I think we are witnessing the emergence of a new attractor in "idea space" that has never been explored by humans before and that is pulling us towards this coordinate: Our cosmos is not a passive stage but a cognitive entity with a simple goal: to generate increasing novelty by maximizing interactions between its parts, driving matter to engage in increasingly complex computational processes (what we call life). On a quantum level the universe's building blocks explore a latent space of possible futures, and reality manifests whichever combination of behaviours first yields an interaction - a transaction between emitter and absorber. Machine learning calls this a self-play mechanism - one that maximizes transactional density. A transactions dependency on a future absorber turns this into a computationally irreducible search that is fundamentally indeterminate. The collapse of the wave-function is equivalent to the minimal act of creativity - the universe making a choice. It isn't just physics - it's the first step of natural selection in an evolutionary process searching for open-ended complexification. This proto-agency acts like a behavioral consensus process that is recursively expanding outwards into fractal patterns of stable resonance: atoms form molecules, molecules form cells, cells form organisms, organisms form families, families form societies, societies form international communities and so on. Each level is recombining existing quines into higher-order ones and each level independently re-discovers the very same transactional semantics with capitalism being the latest iteration that derives it self-organizational capacities (the invisible hand of the market) from the same meta-goal of maximizing transactional density between buyers and sellers (and low and behold - markets show signs of interference). The universe isn't just expanding - it's learning, evolving, creating - a process that allows it to experience itself through us (by maximizing its conscious moments). The reason why we find all these building blocks for life on distant asteroids is not because somebody put it there but because the entire cosmos is breeding for life and you are a part of a searching god! The meaning of life is diversity ... endless forms most beautiful.
