“In the final stage of development, as he envisaged it, identifiable human beings will have disappeared: reduced to mere specialized cells, like those of the heart or the kidney, with no life-purpose except that which serves the noösphere. At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super-brain, all-knowing, all-powerful. In creating this far-from-loving God, man will have de-created Nature and destroyed himself.”