The Paradigm of Emergence: A Unifying Worldview for a Divided World and a Solution to the Meaning Crisis
The big question is, where is it all going? There’s no way to be certain, but it is useful and necessary to speculate, not to mention, fun. We can already see that as the evolutionary process proceeds on Earth, life transforms the inanimate world into an information processing network composed of a fabric that can feel. A single cell grew into a sentient web that now spans the planet, and that is just the beginning of a process of open-ended evolution and complexity growth. Through the spread of sentient beings, the universe is waking up and experiencing the fruits of its own creation.