Point in fact: we have learned more about brain physiology in the past 30 years than all of history before that. Will our knowledge keep growing or plateau? I d

Point in fact: we have learned more about brain physiology in the past 30 years than all of history before that. Will our knowledge keep growing or plateau? I don't know, but it is way to early to state that research is at a dead end. > Who is driving the upward development of life ... This is begging the question. It presumes a both a who and an intention. Also, "upward" is an odd take -- spiders / sharks / humans are all equally evolved in that they can trace their lineage to a common ancestor and have been evolving all that time. It seems upward only if one is thinking like that cliched monkey -> caveman -> human illustration. > ... the physical universe tends toward chaos It tends toward increasing entropy, not chaos. For sure, there are local pockets of organization, but they are all temporary.