EPISODE · May 6, 2026 · 53 MIN
Aliveness: The Physics of Purpose
from Mechanism Realism · host Elias Kunnas
What must be true for a system to persist? This episode introduces Aliveness: a physics-based framework for understanding telic (goal-directed) systems, from civilizations and institutions to artificial intelligence and the self. Instead of asking only what we should value, Aliveness asks what thermodynamics, selection, game theory, and information theory require of any goal-directed system that wants to endure. The result is an engineering view of ethics: integrity, fecundity, harmony, and synergy as the virtues of systems that generate organized complexity over deep time.https://kunnas.com/aliveness/
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What must be true for a system to persist? This episode introduces Aliveness: a physics-based framework for understanding telic (goal-directed) systems, from civilizations and institutions to artificial intelligence and the self. Instead of asking only what we should value, Aliveness asks what thermodynamics, selection, game theory, and information theory require of any goal-directed system that wants to endure. The result is an engineering view of ethics: integrity, fecundity, harmony, and synergy as the virtues of systems that generate organized complexity over deep time.https://kunnas.com/aliveness/
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