Thus, cosmic biological evolution first had the potential to become a research program in the early 1960s when its cognitive elements had developed enough to become experimental and observational sciences, and when the researchers in these …“earth to earth, ashes to ashes, stardust to stardust” to be literally true. Cosmic evolution provides us with a master narrative in which our own birth, life, and death are integral parts of the universe, without recourse to the supernatur…
Hubert Reeves
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Reeves appears primarily as a passing reference in the course readings, invoked in discussions of cosmic evolution as a framework that naturalizes human existence within universal processes rather than positioning it outside them. His work seems to matter here for providing a scientific narrative—one grounded in observation rather than supernatural explanation—that reframes mortality and materiality as cosmic inevitabilities. This becomes relevant to Pandaemonium Architecture's broader concern with how systems thinking and evolutionary frameworks reshape our understanding of agency, temporality, and the relationship between biological and technological systems.
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