🧠rationality and ⏰time are exaptations of physical 👤bodies

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🧠rationality is exaptation

⁠rationality can be constructed ex-post by adjusting one's belief and desire. teppo22_more_thumbs_rules_rationality_exap.pdf explains rationality emerges through the exaptation of sensory-motor systems, where neural processes involved in basic perception-action control are later co-opted for higher-level reasoning.

⏰time is exaptation

Just as rationality emerges from fundamental perception-action systems, time as we experience it also arises through a gradual co-option of underlying physical and neural processes. Our vivid sense of passing time depends on being non-equilibrium entities—organisms that can hold memories, anticipate the future, and deliberate. At lower levels of description (e.g., Newton’s mechanics, Einstein’s relativity, quantum gravity), “time” loses many of the qualities we find intuitive (directionality, simultaneity, uniform progression). Yet these stripped-down versions provide the structural substrate from which our everyday notion of time is “exapted.” In other words, the layered phenomenon of time—the felt flow and the directional sense—ultimately depends on the same physical underpinnings that allow us to think, remember, and choose, making “time” itself an exaptation that emerges from simpler, more fundamental processes. More in Carlo Rovelli's scientific definition of time

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now the question is how to frame entrepreneur (agent that pursue opportunity without regard to resource controlled) as physical and neural processes, that creates non-equilibrium processes enabling society higher-level reasoning.

very preliminary but with E as energy and t as time, ΔS = -k∫(E - Ec)Θ(t)dt

Category	Example	Analysis	What Happened
High E, Low Θ(t)	Google Glass (2013)	Massive launch energy (E>>Ec), but couldn't sustain momentum	Burst of innovation without sustained ecosystem development; failed to create lasting behavioral change
Low E, High Θ(t)	Segway (2001-2020)	Persistent effort over decades, but never reached critical threshold	Continuous refinement and market attempts, but never achieved energy level to transform mobility
High E, High Θ(t)	Tesla (2008-)	Sustained above-threshold energy in both innovation and market development	Created lasting change in: electric vehicle perception, automotive industry structure, charging infrastructure

building on innovation conjecture explained in #102 (reply in thread)
using ΔS gpt