Admittedly, I'm out of my league here - but I have optimized my framework-of-being so as to sustain pursuits of things beyond my league.
The root is the root of physics, so already I'm out of my league with quantum physics.
Then, in terms of layers, its about constantly pivoting between scales of analysis: atoms, molecules, now we're in chemistry, etc, certain organs of cells, etc, and the evolution of the complexity of matter can be traced out. That's what I mean by intelligent matter - matter that is able to arrange itself combinatorically into increasingly complex structures that react against one another and create an environment in which the structures, as systems, can cybernetically evolve themselves, up to the point when they combine to form larger systems (organisms) that then react against one another and define their environment, etc.
And intelligent matter, as the expression of negative entropy (and that apparently has several facets to it that I don't understand), by which I mean that which tends toward organization and disequilibrium, as opposed to entropy, which tends to disorganized equilibrium. We can see a cosmology taking form here, something I'm inclined to call a Nooism, although I'm sure its already present in existing cosmologies.
Ideology is high up the chain, but it seems this is only possible if you constantly pivot from one level/scale of the chain, to another, to another, to another, and so on, until they begin to connect in your understanding. Then you can see the ramifications across scales (albeit vaguely), and start to ascertain underlying functions and patterns. And it does seem like the algorithm sheds a crucial light on how intelligent matter evolves itself through dialogue with its environment. It is as if the universe, as a matrix, has predetermined settings that allows for certain physical interactions, such as aggregations/combinations, to ensue. At least, that is what physics seemingly sets out to define.
"And the monumentally confusing thing is: capitalism is becoming increasingly evident as being true to cosmic-intelligence / intelligence-matter"
Anyway, way up the chain we get these increasingly immaterial systems, that is, intelligent matter becomes increasingly able to manipulate immaterially, abstractly. The fact that we exist as people is a huge testament to this, and that we aren't just "soulless" or purely machinic. Why? Well, the soul must serve some function. What function? Trafficking through environments consisting of increasingly metaphysical/abstract signals, as opposed to physical/concrete ones?
The major axiom here is that intelligent matter develops algorithmically, that is, in a manner similar to how our algorithms, the ones we write/program, operate. And its not that far-fetched, really.
You can frame it computationally, as input / output
Psychologically, as stimuli / response
Cybernetically, as feedback between environment / system
It all fits together in a way that doesn't seem to leave anything out. That's what startles me. I'm pretty much a skeptic to the core, that is, I have a sort of faith in ephexis as a praxis (for the time being, I'm resigned to an idealism - a life almost purely of ideas). Critique every possibility, but don't completely disregard any possibility. In theory, its an unstoppable method, provided you can generate the stamina.
That's what weirds me out, seeing as I had finally secured an acceptance of objective reality being out of reach, even that isn't certain.
So now its about connecting these different scales of phenomena, from quarks to capitalism, seeing as that seems to be the precipice/peak of intelligent matter.