Meta-Nature in Potentia

December 22, 1999

It may be very important for us to put things in perspective at this point in our history and realize where we are on this great sweep of inevitable evolution in chemistry. To see that there are only so many pieces in the puzzle. We have turned them all face up, and can now see how they fit together well enough to recognize that there are fundamental chemical solutions in nature, which nature figured out millions of years ago and basically has not been able to improve upon ever since. It has instead continued to reuse them in ever changing permutations and ever more complex systems, but always based upon the same fundamental biochemical solutions which it devised millions of years ago. In that sense nature does represent a stable base line of unchanging design coherence and perfection with respect to humanity over the time span of human history and prehistory. Nature may be represented as essentially an unchanging flat horizontal base line out of which the slowly ascending curve of human novelty emerges.

We are, in all dimensions of matter and culture, undergoing a point of inversion. From this point forward our technological evolution might be increasingly guided by the realization of the potential for a climax technology, a state of Meta-Nature. A state as harmonious as nature in the coherence of its design; like nature a state achieved through the realization of a potential inherent in the puzzle that is matter. A state that may not bring itself into being except through the intervention of humans. And yet a state which exists fully in potential prior to any manifestation in matter; an inherent property of the coherence of basic space. A state which unfolds inevitably out of the basic harmony and symmetry possible in matter. A state which like nature is not static, but always evolving, but which also like nature has a coherence and beauty expressed through absolutely perfected energetic efficiency.