"History is the shockwave of eschatology. Everything is accelerating toward a moment of maximum novelty — a singularity of coordination so dense that the universe folds back on itself and becomes aware. We're in the third body of time."
Ethnobotanist and psychedelic philosopher who proposed that psilocybin mushrooms catalyzed the cognitive leap that produced language, culture, and coordination in early hominids. His Timewave Zero model argued that novelty — the opposite of entropy — was accelerating toward a terminal event of maximum coordination.