Sam P. Lubberts @samlubberts - Twitter Profile

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Thank you for the critique—it’s valid, and I appreciate it. I’m still deeply immersed in developing this idea. It may take years to fully refine, but my core aim is to articulate a meaningful metric worth maximizing—an argmax function for awareness itself. In essence, a practical methodology for extracting the highest possible return from the “function” of conscious experience. I suspect that when we actively assist the universe in increasing entropy, we are rewarded in kind. The second law of thermodynamics tells us entropy cannot be decreased overall—only locally delayed or globally accelerated. While I continue to wrestle with notions of “stagnation,” I lean toward the view that, given sufficient time, any apparently static configuration will inevitably dissipate into entropic motion. We can meaningfully slow energy dispersal and temporarily maintain gradients, but any significant, non-local action tends to steepen them further. The more efficiently we extract free energy and perform computation, the more powerfully we contribute to this process. Jeremy England’s framework of dissipation-driven adaptation feels profoundly right here: living systems (and by extension, conscious ones) aren’t merely surviving despite the second law—they are among the most efficient entropy maximizers available to the universe. Consciousness, in this light, may simply be the next emergent order of this same imperative. At present, I believe compression is the pivotal mechanism. Greater compression of information and structure frees up non-local space for new potentials, enabling steeper and more expansive entropy gradients to form. In short: the better we compress, the more room the universe has to “unfold” into higher-entropy configurations—and the more value we generate in the process.

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