Physics and Biology Changing Us For the Better?

Assembly theory is used to grasp the underlying principles and mechanisms determining the emergence and behavior of complex systems — from simple parts — in physics, biology, etc.

It’s also useful in addressing the most basic human questions, including: What, to me, would be a life well lived?

Anybody’s life is comprised of discrete objects, hierarchically arranged.

For example, an object could be: how well we manage metabolic health — balancing what we eat, when we eat, and how we burn energy.

There are potentially infinitely more objects in the assembly space — so then it becomes a prioritization problem.

The assembly contingent is something like understanding the causal chain of events between the present and some imagined, better, future.

After all, life seems to be a soup of emergent factors where we have a sliver of influence (on what’s most local and immediate).

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