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I disagree, this force is not intentional it's something greater. An evolutionarily optimal pressure that exists all the way down to the smallest bacteria, all forms of life show this similar behavior. It is a species way to self preserve, prodding and testing all frontiers. Sending nodes into the darkness or depths, physical or psychological and across time, pushing back against over centralization. It gets interesting when we can see this process increasing the number of nodes being sent. It's as if there's a sense of danger or risk ahead then life anticipates by sending out more scouts, pushing us to the extremes searching for solutions. Hardening the species to whatever we will face. Major threats will always come. This is the only process life can use to survive. After all why does bitcoin or nostr even exist. We are the penguin... That penguin might look crazy, but it is on most important necessary and noble march suicidal or not.

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What you say sounds poetic and even quixotic. There may be something to that. Pioneers are those who dare to imagine a different world, with a vision beyond the limits imposed by others or temporarily self-imposed.
Returning to the penguin… without having the full context, I didn't assume it was an infomitable explorer. Perhaps a suicide because he lost his mate, or because he's incapable of supporting the group, or because it's old and its compass doesn't work properly, or because it's a biological cleansing rite to make room for the younger ones? Only by observation and following I could generate a hypothesis for testing.