Perhaps the deepest irony is that the original meaning of intelligence was not accumulation of information. It was discernment. The ability to distinguish signal from noise. A person can carry the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket and still lose that ability.

Each human action, thought, and choice may inscribe itself into DNA as molecular memory and simultaneously into the URE as cosmic memory.

Is reality creating information, or is it progressively revealing information that has always existed within the field of potential?

That is the Teleologico hinge: scripture survives as fragments, but fragments can still preserve architecture.

The world doesn’t need to trap us in patterns. We’re fully capable of doing that ourself.

The most primitive sense, universal to all life forms, is chemo-sense (chemical sensing).