The Origins of Us Quotes

“Feeling and thinking are ways we process information, but our emotional sensation is normally faster than a conscious thought. Nothing is real for us until perceived. The Conscious Instant Hypothesis denotes that we experience waking reality as a series of perceptual frames.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology

“If we are to reconceptualize the origins of life in light of new evidence that was hiding in plain sight, the notion that biological life is a 'cosmic imperative' gets all support it needs. In other words, organic life had to eventually emerge.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology

“In my life as a human, I see clues that evolution on Earth and elsewhere in the cosmos at large is not being pushed from behind in entropic randomness but being pulled forward by complexification, natural selection and other evolutionary forces orchestrated by a strange unseen teleological attractor, in McKenna’s words the 'Transcendental Object' at the end of time. The Noosphere is the collective consciousness of humanity, the networks of thought and emotion in which we all are immersed, it’s a cognitive layer of the planet, which has found a physical expression in the form of today’s Internet. As the Noosphere gains more coherence, typical of a biological brain, this process of 'planet cognification' accelerates.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology

“In my life as a human, I see clues that evolution on Earth and elsewhere in the cosmos at large is not being pushed from behind in entropic randomness but being pulled forward by complexification, natural selection and other evolutionary forces orchestrated by a strange unseen teleological attractor, in McKenna’s words the 'Transcendental Object' at the end of time. The Noosphere is the collective consciousness of humanity, the networks of thought and emotion in which we all are immersed, it’s a cognitive layer of the planet, which has found a physical expression in the form of today’s Internet. As the Noosphere gains more coherence, typical of a biological brain, this process of “planet cognification” accelerates.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology

“Our senses seem to deceive us into thinking that we live in the material world. Our world is not based on objectively existing particles of matter but it is based on waves of potentiality, that is pure information. Our world is informational. Think of it as an observer-centric virtual reality. Your consciousness is, rather, an optimized meta-algorithmic data stream, a sequence of conscious instants.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology

“Since the dawn of civilization, Homo sapiens has become a self-programmable species.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology