Neitzche and Turing

From the Prologue of Beyond Good and Evil: "the fundamental condition of all life, perspective."

From the Turing machine: all it sees is its current state and immediate environment. This is perspective. The individual actor, whether an ant or a person in an economy or an agent in a simulation - it sees only its environment, and its own (possibly very complex) internal state. Perspective.

It is these tiny pieces each with their own perspective that come together to create order within a system of increasing entropy, to create life. See? Perspective is the fundamental condition of life.

Reading about complexity theory bangs my drum.