“The Grand Purpose”
“The Grand Purpose”: “The more he pondered this subject the more Skylar suspected that life was teleological: that it had a final purpose toward which events drove each human being in their own way and along their own path. He grew fascinated with the challenge of comprehending this, the grandest scheme of life, and realized that to this point he had only gotten an inkling of the methods and manner in which this process functioned, dwarfing in its tortuous, sinuated, whorled, geniculate, holographic, and labyrinthine intricacies not only the world’s fastest computer but the human brain itself. The intelligence orchestrating the destinies of billions of human beings must have been the brain controlling the body of the very universe.”