I like making puzzles.
Puzzles are simply iterative algorithms played in reverse. Like a Rubix Cube, which by knowing the algorithm used to 'reset' a rubix cube, you are very likely to solve it from any permutative state; if you knew the algorithms necessary to make organized objects such as organic molecules - even life, one could play a Rubix Cube-like game with the universe. And that's what we are doing with science, engineering, and technology. The interesting thing is that the universe naturally plays these perfect games with itself - by which I mean: the universe by nature produces objects with algorithms and with those new objects creates new algoriths to create even newer objects which utilize even newer algorithms ans so on.
But what drives the universe to do such things? Variability - Instability - Disorder. When mother nature has a lot of legos to play with she can build many things. And the legos she plays with are very complex and variable little objects themselves. But as the universe builds bigger and more orderly things - they lose their variability - and the possible permutations to solve the puzzle drastically approach zero.
What then?
Fuck. I don't know. One, big, pointless, universe filled with big pulsing spheres or something.
I really hope we're not just a square in some god's Tuesday morning Sudoku.

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