There is No Such Thing as an Isolated System

Any subjective rate of objective understanding is inverse to the rate of behavior that is inverse of said objective universe...

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
- Charles Darwin

The present moment is an infinitesimally short and eternally profound juxtaposition between two infinitely long lines moving in opposite directions. One is that which could be, the other is that which could have been...

"Hear, O Sariputra, emptiness is form; form is just emptiness. Apart from form, emptiness is not; emptiness, form is not. Emptiness is that which is form, form is that which is emptiness. Just thus are perception, cognition, mental construction, and consciousness."
- The Heart Sutra

The mind is a microcosm of the universe becoming increasingly self-aware at a parallel rate to objective understanding...

"Who are you, God?"
"I Am becoming what I Am becoming."
Or
"I Am that I Am."
- Exodus 3:14

Human beings, the most complex known disparate systems and expressions of natural phenomena, are becoming increasingly tolerant and interdependent of one another where life expectancies are high and human potential has the greatest opportunity to change from within, through personal freedom and through technologies such as the internet. This is in contrast to the traditionally outward and individually deterministic approach of known evolution which tends to express itself obsoletely in the form of social Darwinism and seems to anomalously explain itself absent of objective understanding in the form of religious and ideological dogma...

"We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us - the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
- Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Evolution is evolving and self-perpetuating but requires, is expressed through, and resulted in human beings...

"Indeed, technological evolution emerges from biological evolution."
- Raymond Kurzweil

Technology will only appear artificial in nature until natural wisdom and technological wisdom become symbiotic and parallel. This is especially important in anticipation of emerging artificial intelligence within this century...

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T. S. Eliot

It is in this way I see no despair in mechanistic approaches. The natural world is both mechanistic and representative of transcendental complexity...

"I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."
- Albert Einstein

The realizations that result from a fusion of modern science and ancient metaphors, and the responsible use of mind-expanding drugs lend to a tendency of profound awe and optimism...

"...What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and the Sunday-School teachings."
- Timothy Leary

Illusory dichotomies can be expected to crumble rather rapidly once science and mythology begin to visibly converge...

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets