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Arcology
School of Thought

 

Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms

Omega Seed

As the seed is functionally and emblematically the encapsulation of that which an organism will become, the (universal) Omega Seed is the ultimate encapsulation of all the "information-learning" generated by the evolutionary development.

Information-learning that in this extreme case is the "lived" experience of evolution, contained as it is in this ultimate seed. This content , expects animation from the exhaustion of mass-energy, spacetime characteristic of the "infinite" M.C.D. present at the end of spacetime: the animation of Self-Revelation , i.e., of Resurrection.

 

Animism
Art
Artisan
Becoming
Being
Big Bang (B.B.)
Big Crunch (B.C.)
Closed Reality
Complexification, C
Complicated (versus the complex)
Craftsman
Creation
Desirable
Determinism
Duration ,D
Equity
Eschatological Hypothesis
Esthetic Creation
Esthetogenesis
Feasible
Frugality
The Future
Grace
Interiorization
Love Project
M.C.D.
Means and Ends
Memory
Mind
Miniaturization, M
Nature (Reality)
Omega Seed
Open Reality
Opportunism
The Past
The Present
Probabilism
Religion
Residual Anguish
Resurrection
Second Coming
Self-Reliance
Self Revelation
Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)
Spacetime
Stewardship
Technology
Theology
Truth
Urban Effect
Utopia