I think from this perspective there are two fundamental things wrong with the Universe:
consciousness is an emergent, not fundamental, property (as far as we know; panpsychists would object to this), and can only exist within subsystems with specific order qualities;
the second law of thermodynamics means that order-wise, most interactions in the universe are negative sum.
So 1 means that death is a thing, and 2 means that death is in fact sort of the default, and that scarcity and all sorts of reasons to fight are a powerful driver of anything alive, which needs to preserve its negentropy to stay so. A universe that didn’t have these things would not be necessarily free from bad things, but you could at least say that said bad things wouldn’t be life-ending, and that they would generally be the fault of someone; that choices could be made to mitigate them, but if they happen it’s because someone chooses so. That said, I’m not sure what such a universe would look like—probably merely a pure network of consciousness nodes (“individuals”) interacting with each other freely with no space or time. Way too alien to imagine properly.
I think from this perspective there are two fundamental things wrong with the Universe:
consciousness is an emergent, not fundamental, property (as far as we know; panpsychists would object to this), and can only exist within subsystems with specific order qualities;
the second law of thermodynamics means that order-wise, most interactions in the universe are negative sum.
So 1 means that death is a thing, and 2 means that death is in fact sort of the default, and that scarcity and all sorts of reasons to fight are a powerful driver of anything alive, which needs to preserve its negentropy to stay so. A universe that didn’t have these things would not be necessarily free from bad things, but you could at least say that said bad things wouldn’t be life-ending, and that they would generally be the fault of someone; that choices could be made to mitigate them, but if they happen it’s because someone chooses so. That said, I’m not sure what such a universe would look like—probably merely a pure network of consciousness nodes (“individuals”) interacting with each other freely with no space or time. Way too alien to imagine properly.