Novelty Theory (Terence McKenna)

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Above: Terence describes his core beliefs on the topic of Novelty Theory (Potentially a more rigorous theory of complexity)

Also See Russell Wright (aka Technology Shaman), Epimemetics and Wright's early mentor Terence Mckenna on Technology as Prosthesis

Important! Consider 'novelty theory' in conjunction with the far more rigorous scientific works of Dr. Greg Berns on Dopamine and Novelty in the human brain.

Also see Dopamine

Novelty Theory:

According to McKenna the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness. He predicted that a singularity of infinite complexity would be reached in 2012 at which point anything and everything imaginable would occur simultaneously. He referred to this as the Eschaton. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT.

McKenna viewed the universe as a swarm of matter waves, spiralling down the gradient of their synergetic (energetically favourable) constructive interference. He saw the universe as being "pulled from the future toward a goal that is as inevitable as a marble reaching the bottom of a bowl when you release it up near the rim...it comes to rest at the lowest energy state, which is the bottom of the bowl. That’s precisely my model of human history."

In novelty theory, when two matter waves become connected by mutual constructive interference (quantum entanglement, rapport), they imagine or grok each other. Mc Kenna believed that imagination was capable of interconnecting matter waves instantaneously, stating that "the imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information,"and "novelty is density of connection." 

McKenna Rant:

"What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what Whitehead called "concrescence", a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The "autopoietic lapis", the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. I come very close here to classical millenarian and apocalyptic thought in my view of the rate at which change is accelerating. From the way the gyre is tightening, I predict that the concrescence will occur soon—around 2012 AD. It will be the entry of our species into hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination."

Also See Technology Shamanism

Also See Russell Wright

Also See Epimemetic Philosophy

Also See Futurica Trilogy by Alexander Bard