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Meta-Nature 
Nature Contemplating the global situation, virtually all key indicators appear to be accelerating along logarithmic curves. Yet, the human population, peak oil, atmospheric CO2, mass extinction of species and the overall rate of consumption of renewable resources are all rapidly approaching absolute limits. There are only two possibilities given this situation. Either the global system will crash, or these growth trends will have to begin to seek a stable plateau, i.e. what appear to be log curves will turn out to be S-curves. This may actually mimic a pattern that has occurred several times before in the history of biological evolution. The spike in CO2 causing global warming can be seen as the second atmospheric crisis, and peak oil as the third energy crisis, in the history of life on earth. Silicon photovoltaic's are like an octave of photosynthesis and thus a key indicator of the potential for a new life-support technology plateau, a climax technology that humanity may evolve, just as nature did several times before us. Our very recognition of this possibility may be one of a number of converging indicators that we are at the point of inflection on the S-curve leading to Meta-Nature. The Shift
Point The Shift
Scenario The Shift
Point We are undergoing a point of inversion in matter and culture. From this point on, our technological evolution may increasingly be guided by the recognition of the potential for a climax technology, a state of Meta-Nature. A state as harmonious as nature in the coherence of its design, which, like nature, is only the realization of a potential already inherent in the puzzle that is matter; a state that unlike nature may only bring itself into being through the intervention of humans. And yet like nature, one which exists fully in potential prior to any manifestation in matter; an inherent property implicit in the coherence of basic space. A state which unfolds inevitably out of the most fundamental 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 perfected energetic efficiency. The Shift
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Shift In Evolutionary Context The Global
Shift In Evolutionary Context The Shift
Summary The Shift
Scenario Prophesy
and the Point of Inflection Carbon,
Peak Oil, Global Warming and Biomass Answering
Caldwell Calwell's Article: The End of the World
From Nature to Meta-Nature: The Point of Inflection in Time Interactive
Flash: S-Curve TimeMap & Illustrations Meta-Nature Evolution,
Entropy and Work |
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Fournier updated December 27, 2005 Flash Presentation design by transcendigital |