In the transformation of the universe into information, recursion is GOD!

Jeremy Narby, author of THE COSMIC SERPENT and INTELLIGENCE IN NATURE in interview with Ascent Magazine originally, but this link has better illustrations (check out "The Vision of the Snake"!). Of course I'm initially struck that Dick covered a lot of this turf in VALIS in 1981 such as the link between serpent imagery and the DNA double helix, or the sensation of living within a gigantic, almost unfathomable (due particularly to it's powers of camouflage) system of living information (VALIS=Vast Active Living Intelligence System), and numerous references to the world turning into information either in forward-progressing time-space or as a backwards-process universe heading FROM chaos TOWARDS articulate information). Had my hands on THIS book in NH's best used bookstore yesterday, and, goddammit, should have parted with the $1.50 necessary to make it mine. Now, at the very least, I might do well to pick up this at The Strand ($5.95!!!) or the NYPL which analogously suggests that the photosensitive body's evolution has culminated in the eyeball to receive information directly and indirectly from the sun in much the same was as the brain as an organ has evolved to receive intelligence from the surrounding intelligent universe. Is it any coincidence that it shares a title with one of my favorite (hell, "only favorite") book(s) about cine-consciousness? VERY interesting indeed.....