Aspirations of Nature (feat. Terence McKenna)

What the universe is doing is it is under the sway

What I call the Transcendental Object At

The End of Time

And that is this domain of hyper-connectivity

That it would be perfect novelty

And all nature aspires for this state

Of perfect novelty

You could almost say that Nature abhors habit

And so it seeks the novel by producing various kinds

Of phenomena at every level in biology chemistry and society

And so there really is a purpose to the universe

Its purpose is this state of hyper-complexification

In which all of its points become related to each other

Become what mathematicians call cotangent

And it gives the inverse a feeling of being imbued

With a caring presence

Then suddenly, human beings are moved back

To the center of the stage

We are the most novel thing on this planet

We are everything biology is, plus technology

Language, politics, philosophy, art, so forth and so on

So suddenly human beings become important

Not mere cosmic witnesses to a meaningless cosmos

But the cutting edge of a cosmos that glories in order

And is moving toward higher states of order

And at the present moment we are the carriers

Once it was the volcanic processes that

Shaped this planet Once it was the life of the early oceans

Once it was the great dinosaurs

But today, humanity represents the cutting edge of complexity

And this process of moving toward complexification

So you give meaning to human life

What is man's purpose? To advance and preserve novelty

You know, this is an ethical position

It means you don't replace rainforests with pastures

You don't censor books

You don't lean on people who need gender choices

Different from yours

No, the purpose of being a human is to complexity reality even more

To hand on a more diverse, more complicated

More multifaceted universe to our children