This reminds me of Teilhard de Chardin's take on complexification, as laid out in his seminal book Le Phénomène humain. See e.g., this article[0] for a simple o

This reminds me of Teilhard de Chardin's take on complexification, as laid out in his seminal book Le Phénomène humain. See e.g., this article[0] for a simple overview of the hypothesis. For further reading, I recommend the excellent new translation by Sarah Appleton-Weber, The Human Phenomenon[1]. [0] <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-0526%28199703/04%292%3A4%3C7%3A%3AAID-CPLX2%3E3.0.CO%3B2-D https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/%28SICI%2910...> [1] <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781902210292 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/...>