[stainablesteel]

its a very poetic interpretation

i think i would take it a step further, most organisms alive today operate at the level of a generative model for a generative model (continue umpteen times) until you arrive at the level of physiology that assembles nerves and organs to work at the scale they do

and i would also comment on the impeccability of the feedback mechanisms across each layer, that every message eventually gets into a cell, binds to a protein, which probably cascades into a binding of a 100 different proteins at some point, that eventually sends a message to the tiny nucleus to wrap or unwrap a specific segment of DNA, is quite a beautiful way of thinking about it

[mistermann]

I wonder if this extends to consciousness, including the impeccable part.

[stainablesteel]

a real adrenaline rush can give you amazing physical power (at the cost of a lot of pain the next day)

so in a way, yeah, because that would go through consciousness first then signals back down stream