I found out about Novelty Theory recently. it’s basically the idea that the universe is a living system designed to create novelty (complexity and order, the opposite of entropy).

McKenna repeatedly describes human cultural development as a succession of historical periods which are “compressed” versions of each other. In this manner, he describes an overall acceleration of human cultural development, which he likens to a “tightening spiral” approaching what he describes as the “transcendental object at the end of the universe”.

according to his predictions we’re approaching an era where novelty will increase infinitely and exponentially, and “anything and everything conceivable to the human imagination will occur simultaneously”. It’s kind of like the technological singularity except it doesn’t apply to just our technological and scientific advances but to human consciousness at large.

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