jbdistaken

can you please elaborate on discerning different types of poverty based on causes? This sounds like something I should understand

He has a dense academic tome called "being no one: the self-model theory of subjectivity" that works through a theory of an 'emergent phenomenological self' [2]. A shorter book discussing the issues is "ego tunnel: the science of the mind & the myth of the self" [3]. It is intended for lay audience & is very readable. fun stuff.

[0] https://www.philosophie-e.fb05.uni-mainz.de/institutes/theor... [1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [2] https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl... [3] https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

looks like CQG spell-checker added a subliminal typo in the abstract :)

Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12803770 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14021885 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14022158

in general, no. E.g., a child with a high fever will dissipate more energy than a child without a fever over the same time period. who is more likely to survive?

We can even consider a specific type of dissipation that an organism uses to store memories (longer lifetime of memory = less reversible = requires more dissipation), there's no guarantee that the memories stored will be useful for survival. storing a memory that lasts 100 years costs dissipation that could be better spent elsewhere for an organism that typically lives 1 week...

but with appropriate restrictions on what is meant by dissipation, organism, ... the timescales involved, the driving ... then the reverse statement can be true "more likely evolutionary outcomes" <among all possible trajectories of configurations of 'organisms'> "are going to be the ones that absorbed and dissipated more energy from the environment’s external drives on the way to getting there.”