From the metabolism of a swan to that of Gaia, the main force that dynamic entities must counter is faceless, disruptive entropy, which disperses heat and in general works to dissipate concentrations and complexities that may have been carefully sequestered and built by life.

In an arcology, the built environment and the living processes of the inhabitants interact as organs, tissues, and cells do in a highly evolved organism.

In man, and starting with man, we have a folding back and a general convergence upon itself (both in its mechanism and in its products) of evolution’s most axial nucleus.

The whole phenomenon of the automatic stratification of a cosmos in a state of cosmogenesis!

What, then, is this “self”? What is added to information by obeying the old advice “know thyself”?

When life has completely engulfed the entire universe it will incorporate more and more material into itself, and the distinction between living and non-living matter will lose its meaning.

If a species wanted to radiate through the galaxy and was searching for contact with other minded species, a good approach would be to create a probe which is more biology than technology.

Each organism is the big bang in action.

This world electric grid, with its omni-integrated advantage, will deliver its electric energy anywhere, to anyone, at any one time, at one common rate. This will make possible a world-around uniform costing and pricing system for all goods and services based realistically on the time-energy metabolic accounting system of Universe.

I’m beginning to reveal an assumption that underlies our practical everyday conduct that we don’t ordinarily look at: whether it is better to draw out life in what we call a sensible way, make it as long as possible, or whether it wouldn’t be much better to make it as vivid as possible for a short time.

Just as the activities of an animal’s individual cells mesh to serve the needs of the animal as a whole, human activity has organized itself into large functional patterns that join to sustain the entirety of Metaman.

Something is plotted, something is working itself out in us. We are the cells of a much larger body. And like the cells of our own body, it’s very hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern, the whole of what is happening.

I have tasted too deeply the joy of expanding my being to the dimensions of all that lives to be able henceforth to confine myself to the limits of my own self; I have been too conscious of the thrill of universality in my soul, to accept a bliss that leaves me in isolation.

It is upon the maintenance and growth in human consciousness of what I have called the “sense of the Species” that the realization of a truly democratic world society ultimately depends. Only a powerful polarization of human wills, after each fragment of humanity has been led to the discovery of his own particular form of freedom, can ensure the convergence and unified working of this plurality in a single, coherent planetary system.

This is what being psychedelic means: it means you’re more than a surface. You have more to say than “Have a nice day.” You’re there, you know? And a lot of people aren’t. They’re just fulfilling sociological algorithms that are imposed from the top.

Reality is originating an aim out of its aimless beginning.

The image of God becomes the final obstruction. Your God is your ultimate barrier.

I’m just shifting consciousness a little bit to say: let’s just stay open to what’s happening and find whether we can be peaceful in the process of change rather than in always resisting the change. Is this too weird?

All alters are immersed, like islands of a single ocean, in the thoughts that constitute the concealed side of the inanimate cosmos.

Entropy is a measure of disorder; hence negative entropy (or information) is a measure of order or of organization, since the latter, compared to distribution at random, is an improbable state.

If you have a system which consists of many components, and these components interact with each other in a productive way (producing some other components)—when the system is organized such that the production of these components are the very components that do this production, then you have an autopoietic system, and then you have a living organization.

So long as a natural particle (a molecule, for example) contains in its structure no more than a small number (some tens, or some hundreds, or even some thousands) of organized atoms, no external trace can be distinguished of what we call life. If, however, the number of atoms incorporated rises to several tens of millions (as would seem to be the case with the organic ‘viruses’, vegetal animals) then the chemical characteristics develop a fringe of biological properties in the element concerned.

If we don’t talk about it, it isn’t a meme; it’s a private obsession, it’s something underground. But we bring it into competition in the environment of natural selection for applicable meaning when we utter it. And that’s why the beginning of any social change is discussion.

The juggler, scared out of his own wits, keeping six bottles of nitroglycerin whirling from hand to hand. But in this case the bottles are the stars and galaxies.