The Point of Inflection in Time

TalkJim FournierSeptember 25, 2026

Jim Fournier presents 'Meta-Nature,' a 25-year-old thesis arguing that humanity's technological evolution mirrors prior biological crises (the exhaustion of primordial soup, the oxygen crisis, the carbon crisis) and that photovoltaics are an 'octave' of photosynthesis just as silicon is an octave of carbon. He argues the singularity's apparent logarithmic curve is actually an S-curve approaching a stable 'climax technology' plateau, suggesting humanity is not separate from nature but a parallel evolutionary pathway toward it. The talk is followed by audience discussion touching on Wheeler's 'it from bit,' Penrose-Hameroff quantum consciousness theory, and panpsychism.

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