There is much to explore about spacetime and objects as compressed encodings of fitness payoffs. For instance, what aspect of fitness is captured by space, and what by objects? How do shapes, colors, textures, and motions arise in the compression of fitness? Why does the compression of fitness lead us to have perceptions that are formatted in different modalities—vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch? Perhaps distances in space encode costs of acquiring resources: an apple that costs few calories to acquire may appear just a meter away, while an apple that costs far more calories may appear
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