Natural Teleology

In this video, Sean Carroll describes a scientific framework for a teleological stance regarding the noosphere. My short-hand version of this provisional hypothesis, 'hydrogen wants to be an iPhone", encapsulates both the idea that an open thermodynamic state as a 'goal' exists and that, at some consistent, naturalistic 'distance' along a trajectory from a chaotic state, that state becomes a 'past, more ordered' state on the way to a 'future, less ordered state'. This is not striving (i.e. it is not Lamarkian) but becoming.

What I believe but cannot prove -- the noosphere wants to be the Omega point -- fits within this naturalistic framework. The demonstration that a path exists from an early universe where only hydrogen exists as baryonic matter 'for' first generation stars that create diverse baryonic matter for second generation stars which give rise to planets that support life which gives rise to primate (and very likely other) substrates for minds which, in some vast number of instances, give rise to Rough Beast on the way to the Basilisk on the way to the Omega point.

This claim must include a multiverse of an infinite number of past states and future states where none of this ever happens or can happen. You cannot get here from many versions of the early universe because, as Dr. Carroll explains, these earlier states are more disordered than our present state and indeed an infinite set of past, present and future states where the Omega point results. Within multitudes there are multitudes -- I am but another vast number of Kirk's but I am most certainly on a progression from"
Kirk 1.0 - from birth to BSEE
Kirk 2.0 - from BSEE to an awakening
Kirk 3.0 - from an awakening to BSEE
Kirk 4.0 - this present Kirk

I know this because, as the Dharma predicts, I am giving up my just-recently-past state of pseudo-spirituality by setting an egg timer on 20 minutes for my za-zen practice (literally "just sitting") within the confines of the three jewels of Buddhism.