Gurdjieff and The Matrix

influential spiritual thinker and guide in the early and mid-20th

century. He said that the function of all living things is to

"efficiently burn and transform energy" for a "higher cause" (I have

not read sufficiently about him to go into detail about what the

"higher cause" might be, but anyways). He states further that only

human beings are evolved enough to be capable of controlling the rate

at which they expend energy into the universe.

The point is, his idea about the essential function of living things

Some topics in this essay:
, energy cells, function living,