Augmentation towards an imagined (not real) end

Because the needs of humans are many and unsatisfiable, in effect their need to augment their information processing strives towards an imagined but not a real—in the sense that this end is neither attainable nor existent (see also §25.00.02). In essence, every human needs to constantly increase his or her information processing, never stopping the processing of new information until his or her biological end. Augmentation is relative: it is subject to comparison (Comparison (and not aggression) being the only natural trait of humans, see §05.01.09) and to space and time, meaning to the processing tools and capabilities that are in the hands of specific humans at any given time. The information processing of each new generation throughout human history has increased in comparison to that of previous generations. (Relatively, obviously. For example, when empires reach breaking point (e.g. the fall of the Roman world) the level of processing reached is reset and the next generation has to start from a previous level (with the generation witnessing the fall assumed to have perished.) However, because it is relative, augmentation is unsatisfiable, that is, it always strives for an end that is imagined but not real (at least for each generation concerned).

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