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On personality and predisposition

Current prevailing science describes the universe as a barren and inhospitable place composed almost entirely of non-living matter and empty space. But on Earth, matter has somehow organized itself to produce living organisms. Even so, when, compared with the size of the universe, all life on Earth is a tiny, trivial speck. Existentially speaking, life appears pointless, without purpose, and will be forgotten.  2500 years ago ancient Greek philosophers saw the universe as a single living creature that embraces all living creatures within it. The Stoics taught that nature is a rationally organized and well-ordered providential system, and all events that occur within the universe fit within a coherent, well-structured scheme. More recently, theoretical physicist Vitaly Vanchurin published a landmark paper in the journal Entropy titled “ The World as a Neural Network .” Hossenfelder described the structural organization of the Universe to be brain-like.  Theoretical physicist S...

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