Remix.run Logo
api 2 days ago

Find some images of the entire huge scale structure of the universe. It looks a bit like… a brain.

What does this mean? Probably not nothing, but probably not “the cosmos is the mind of god.” It probably means that we live in a universe that tends to produce repeating nested patterns at different scales.

But maybe that’s part of what makes it possible to evolve or engineer brains that can understand it. If it had no regularity there’d be no common structural motifs.

EvanAnderson 2 days ago | parent [-]

Similar feeling here re: "mind of God". I interpret these patterns as a very simple property of mathematics producing complex-looking patterns and evolution exploiting that complexity. Evolution is the ultimate procedural content generation machine.

kroaton 2 days ago | parent [-]

I thought that was Houdini.