the eternal challenge for any ordered system is resisting the natural tendency toward disorder.

The total amount of free energy in the universe must decrease with time. The total amount of thermal entropy in the universe must increase with time.

In this application, entropy is not a measure of disorder but a measure of cognitive bandwidth.

accumulates through the elimination of errors and the selective retention of solutions to practical problems.

Above all else, it is the capacity to acquire, store, process, and transmit information that separates life from nonlife.

phenomenal consciousness refers to “experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it is like to be that state.”

All evolutionary processes are learning processes, and all forms of learning are evolutionary processes.

Earth is continually bombarded with asteroids, up until a point. And that at some point, corresponding roughly to our year 2000 AD, asteroids that are on a collision course with the earth, that otherwise would have collided, mysteriously get deflected or they detonate before they can hit the earth.

dark energy that comprises about 70 percent of the energy of the entire universe.