Terence McKenna and his idea of extropy is explained through the

window of opportunity we can call novelty. One of Terence McKenna’s

most widely promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts

the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of

time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid 1970s after his

experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the

King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology,

extropy, and eschatology. The theory proposes that the universe is an

engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty.

Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a

term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to

McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known

as “timewave zero” or simply the “timewave” results. The graph

shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty

increases or decreases. Considered by some to represent a model of

history’s most important events, the universal algorithm has also

been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to

the expectation of a “singularity of novelty”, and that he and his

colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find

when this singularity (runaway “newness” or extropy) could occur.

The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last

25000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December

22, 2012.