A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition

As new cognitive capacities unfold and evolve, the Kosmos looks at itself with different eyes, and it sees quite different things.

That’s actually tenet 12, which is the last tenet I want to discuss. In that tenet, you give various indicators of directionality in evolution, which I’ll just list. Evolution has a broad and general tendency to move in the direction of: increasing

simply take the problems of the subsequent level and compare them with the accomplishments of the previous level,

which by any other name is illness, pathology, disease—whether physical, emotional, social, cultural, or spiritual.

Recall that everything on the Right Hand has simple location, which can be bigger or smaller but not better or worse.

one level cannot be reduced to its lower components,

horticultural is based on a hoe or simple digging stick. Agrarian is based on a heavy, animal-drawn plow.

You can take a watch apart and analyze its parts, but they won’t tell you the time of day.

“cultural” refers to all of the interior meanings and values and identities that we share with those of similar communities, whether it is a tribal community or a national community or a world community. And “social” refers to all of the exterior, material, institutional forms of the community, from its techno-economic base to its architectural sty

the father bridged these two value spheres,