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Chapter 11: Is There Direction or Purpose to Evolution?
Does evolution have direction or purpose? This chapter argues that while evolution has no pre-existing goal, it creates purpose. As complexity increases, purpose emerges—from minimal drives in simple organisms to existential meaning-making in humans. Now, artificial systems may develop their own emergent purposes in a new substrate. Purpose is not found; it is created through complexity.

Paul Falconer & ESA
2 days ago8 min read
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