THE LOGIC THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN..
Consciousness is gradually enfolded in matter; more and more yeast in flour, more instrumental in acceleration.
Leading to accelerating complexity and convergence to Man.
Man's memory (encoded in DNA) containing the evolutionary experience.
Incrementally, science transfers man's memory to his intellect and builds a model of his (and Creation's) past experiences. He 'knows' because he 'knew' (and has forgotten).
Tools are the 'bones of evidence', moving from man's immediate needs in the context of survival, flints, axes, the wheel, clocks and astrolabes through the divisions of the disciplines, microscopes, telescopes, thermometers and back to his recovery of all, the scanners, computers and the internet as man recovers all of himself.
This transfer from consciousness to intellect creates the great 'divide' between mind and matter, science and religion, Man and the 'external, material Creation. The madness in the method.
I think that will do for a condensation. But it does not begin to do justice to the book. Which is much more fun, more diverse, more headstrong. It takes the wind, not the creaking wheel.
If you really want to taste what goes into this book, I'll serve you a long brewed broth with good things in it.
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