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We’ve grown accustomed to thinking of humanity as a fluke. A tiny planet on the edge of a galaxy, adrift in vast, cold space - and on it, for reasons unknown, something as incredible as consciousness emerged. Most attempts to explain this fact choose one of two options: either we are a unique design, or we are a happy accident in an indifferent universe. Both positions, despite their apparent opposition, stem from a common assumption: consciousness is an anomaly in the physical world, requiring a special explanation beyond established physical principles.

I propose a third way. We are neither a design nor a coincidence. We are a systematic error. The result of a process that has no goal but does have a logic. And to understand this logic, one must begin not with life or consciousness, but with entropy.

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