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my age old question . if LIFE is the answer, what is the question, ........ what set of problems are living systems solving for?

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Not your old age question?

:-)

It's like Jeopardy except that Watson won't have the answer.

One of my faculty, Cesar Hidalgo, recently wrote a book called "Why Information Grows".
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Information-Grows-Evolution-Economies/dp/0465048994

I haven't read it yet, but I've had some conversations with him. He's trying to approach it from a physics perspective and argues that life is "information" and "order". Not sure this is right.

mean but funny..:) ; if you have read kant his principles are equivalent to arrows in cat theory. he did not have the formal apparatus to analyze.. amusing. economics is a description of the category of exchanges. . it is not limited to money or information , it is a process , not a noun

"mean but funny..:)" Am I the only one who is every mean and funny to you? If so, it's important I think. For your fitness.

The question is great, but the question about the question, or the question of what is the "highest" question or an even "better" question is also sort of funny. It's recursive up in a weird way.

Jeffrey Epstein

One other thought.

Have been thinking that engineers like to "solve" things. Are answers to questions "solutions"? How is the role of imagination? What about "what if?" questions rather than questions with solutions?