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Just some speculation, but, I think humans have on the one hand a lot of degrees of freedom in behaviors and thoughts they can do, but at the same time all that freedom is reigned in by our biological needs, like preserving the integrity of our body, but also preserve the integrity of our minds. But this extends further to preserving our surroundings (for our safety, a changing environment brings uncertainty), but also of people we care about and even entire societies that we have. And preserving our future selves through prediction of future environments. So all that is to say, I'm not sure it is even theoretically possible to create a single algorithm to do open ended search and evaluation. Biology has billions of years of evolution and accumulation, whereas a simple algorithm in a computer, even if smart and connected to the real world, has no such accumulation. I think humans hit the perfect sweet spot where we have the simplicity of the self preservation instinct, but we have the complexity of the cortex and lots of degrees of freedom because of it, plus on top of that we have a lot of accumulated degrees of freedom in the society and technology and knowledge that have we, which has been built up for thousands of years, all of which we can't just create an algorithm to encapsulate without going through the actual evolution. And just to make it explicit - a large percentage of what humans think derives from an instinct to preserve the self, the mind, the future and the environment, even if it is very abstract at times. Not absolutely all, but I think a good chunk. And the complexity and degrees of freedom comes from that we have so many neurons in the brain, and a complex body with hands and whatever else that allows a lot of behaviors, as well as a complex environment that is constantly challenging us. |