VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneuos self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasiconsciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence.

Great Soviet Dictionary Sixth Edition, 1992

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