Grooving in Complexity (feat. Terence McKenna)

Now we appear to be about to

Now we appear to be about to

Now we appear to be about to

Move from the strictly human domain to the human

Machine symbiosis domain

And of course machines process information

Make connections, and do their work at a rate

Thousands of times faster than a human being can work

The universe you and I are living in is a far more novel

And complicated

Place than the early universe was

Why should the universe have a preference for order over disorder

Physicists believe the universe is running down ultimately

Into a state of disorder

But what I see is everywhere the emergence of more and more

Complex forms, languages, organisms

Technologies, always building on the previously

Achieved levels of complexity

This process of complexification through time

Is not proceeding at a steady rate

It actually is happening faster

And faster. And human technologies, languages, migrations

Art movements, ideologies are not

Something different from nature

They're the same download of process that we see in the movement

Of continents, the evolution of new species of animals

Except that these human novel emergent

Situations are happening much more quickly

So I see the cosmos, if you will, as a kind of

Novelty-producing engine

Well, this explains our present circumstance. It explains the rush

Toward all forms of new technology and social organization

In the new millennium

But you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand

That if the universe is complexifying faster and faster

A time will come when this rate of complexification

Is occurring so rapidly

That it will become itself the overwhelming phenomena

In the world of three-dimensional space and time

And I call this the omega point

Or the transcendental object at the end of history

The universe is coordinating the point of view over time

And as it does this it becomes

Somehow more aware, more self-conscious

More being-like and less think-like

This process is not proceeding at a steady pace

It's proceeding faster and faster

More connectivity occurs now in a calendar year

Than occurred in a million years, a billion years ago

Which lasts longer?

A million years in which nothing happens

Or ten seconds with 50,000 events crammed

Into it?

The character of time as we approach the present is

That there are more and more physical domains

And energetic domains in which change can occur

For example, the early universe was a pure plasma

A pure swarm of unassociated electrons

You didn't even have atomic systems

Let alone chemistry, molecular chemistry

Life, complex speciated life

And dynamically balanced planetary ecosystems

Each one of those more complex phenomena crystallized out or emerged

If you will, from the previous systems that had come into existence

So we see again a progressive acceleration of the process of creating

And maintaining varieties of connectivity

And that's what I mean by time is speeding up