VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film):
A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasi-consciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and anarmillary coherence.
Great Soviet Dictionary, 6th Ed. 1992
Original opening quote from Phillip K. Dick's novel "VALIS" processed by Midjourney AI 5.