The Global Brain Project - A World Evolution Initiative. Conciencia Colectiva. State of Innovation: The Global Brain Comes Online. The Global Brain, Existential Risks, and the Future of AGI. The future of humanity involves a complex combination of technological, psychological, and social factors – and one of the difficulties we face in comprehending and crafting this future is that not many people or organizations are adept at handling all of these aspects.
Dr. Stephen Omohundro is one of the fortunate exceptions to this general pattern, and this is part of what gives his contributions to the futurist domain such a unique and refreshing twist. Steve has a substantial pedigree and experience in the hard sciences, beginning with degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Stanford and a Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley. But he has also developed considerable expertise and experience in understanding and advising human minds and systems. Minding the Planet: From Semantic Web to Global Mind. Draft 1.1 for Review (integrates some fixes from readers) Nova Spivack (www.mindingtheplanet.net) This article presents some thoughts about the future of intelligence on Earth.
Towards a Global Brain. Rewiring The Global Brain for Peace - Culture CollectiveCulture Collective. “The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don’t like the reflection, it doesn’t really help to break the mirror.”
-Deepak Chopra at Global Meditation for Peace August 8, 2014 Since the beginning of time humans have been gathering to honor and celebrate life, but not until now have we had the technology to do this in a globally synchronized manner. August 8 marked a world record with over 100,000 people simultaneously meditating for world peace. Produced by Chopra Center, 1 Giant Mind, and Unify, you can now watch the event hosted by Gabrielle Bernstein, featuring a guided meditation by Deepak Chopra and a musical performance by India Arie singing, I Am Light for free online.
“I am not the color of my eyes. Deepak shares some very practical wisdom and humor before the meditation reminding people not to be “angry peace activists” but rather to become the peace first and these feelings will become contagious for people around you. You can’t give to the world what you don’t have. Edgescience_01. Does the Global Brain exist? « Egostratum.
“The Global Brain is a metaphor for the worldwide intelligent network formed by people together with the information and communication technologies that connect them into an “organic” whole…Although the underlying ideas are much older, the term was coined in 1982 by Peter Russell in his book The Global Brain.… This perspective sees our planet or our society as a living system.
This view can be dated back to 1159 with John of Salisbury. The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster & Smarter in a Networked World - by Satish Nambisan & Mohanbir Sawhney. Global Brain. QRPD, Quality Rapid Product Development Methodology, Proven Product Development Best Practices, Global Brain, Inc.
Psychesingularity. What is the Psychesingularity? « psychesingularity. As I mentioned in the introduction, Psyche is the greek god/word for the mind or soul.
“Psychesingularity” therefore means the convergence of minds/souls into a singular entity. I argue in this blog that the most significant aspect of the technological singularity is the convergence of individual human identities into one, the formation of the superconsciousness of the human race. This is where my argument begins. The human brain is composed of a bunch of neurons. The approximate number is irrelevent, as we can’t comprehend numbers that large anyway. Conscious experience emerges from these patterns. This sense of individuality is very strong in us, but we have nothing to prove it, nothing that separates the matter that composes our bodies and minds from “others.”
Projects are quickly developing to simulate the human brain. We are struggling to grapple with consciousness and computers. -Prometheus Tell Your Friends! Like this: Like Loading... The Internet is Our Superconsciousness « psychesingularity. I feel that I should be quite explicit here in case this connection has not been fully formed for some readers.
The Emerging Global Brain and the Internet’s Future. A few interesting posts and seemingly-unrelated themes have been circulating around Google Plus for the past few weeks or so. These thoughts have, I believe, been spurred on by the impending threat of the insanity of the SOPA and PIPA legislation . I see the issues of Internet censorship, access rights, and content reuse as part of a much larger phenomenon that many people are unaware. Becoming Part of Global Mind. The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Carson McCullers To deal with the global challenges we are facing as a species, we need to choose to become part of global mind. What does this mean? Imagine yourself as a neuron. You are connected to many other neurons. What ends up happening, over time, is that each neuron starts to pay more attention to those connections whose information helps make most sense of the world, and pay less attention to those connections whose information increases confusion.
This creates a network that is an integrated, living mirror of the reality that it is experiencing. The Advent of a Global Intelligence. March 2011. Two existing evolutionary replicators are genes and memes.
These operate within the body and mind respectively. It is proposed that, with the realisation of the Global Brain (GB), there could be a novel corresponding replicator, using as its vehicle the human brain, and acting across the sub-structures of the GB. The noeme [(plural noemes), pronounced no:ĭm, from the Greek νόημα which means ‘that which emanates from the Nous (brain/mind)’ i.e. understanding, sense, thought] is the intellectual ‘presence’ of an individual within the GB.
A noeme is an active germ-line evolutionary replicator that can be copied and transmitted horizontally. The Global Brain Facilitates Human Biological Immortality. @T: ALWAYS THE TWAIN »Category The Global Brain. » The global brain. The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now.
Internet map of the Middle East A computer defeats humans on a television game show. An information network brings down a series of dictatorships. We are witnessing a massive explosion in data, and an equally massive explosion in our ability to process and distribute it. The fall of the Soviet Union may have been driven, in part, by the fax machine; today, revolutions are driven by Wikileaks, Facebook, and Twitter. Some recent news articles about information overload — as well as some additional stories: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Chrystia Freeland. Get ready for the global brain.
That was the grand finale of a presentation on the next generation of the Internet I heard last week from Yuri Milner. G-8 leaders had a preview of Milner’s predictions a few months earlier, when he was among the technology savants invited to brief the world’s most powerful politicians in Deauville, France. Beverly Macy: The Global Brain, Chaos Theory, and the Power of Real-Time Social Media. In this excerpt from her new book The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing (co-authored with Teri Thompson), Beverly Macy offers a view of the global brain, world events, and the immense amount of metadata produced by social media platforms. Is it really just random, or are we following the laws of nature?
As a connected global society, people are sharing opinions, reviews, thoughts, and movements with one another all day, every day. That in itself is remarkable. We call it the real-time global brain. It represents a new form of openness that transcends media, politics, and boundaries and can serve as a powerful search engine, a breaking-news blaster, and an early-warning system. As the body of metadata continues to grow, it becomes even more meaningful and intelligent, giving life to this dynamic global brain. The Chopra Well: Deepak Chopra: How Social Media Created the Global Brain. Our brains are designed to continue learning and growing throughout our lives , but it's up to us to keep them stimulated. Now in the age of technology, though, we consume information more quickly and on a wider spectrum than ever before, and our brains catalog it all with the ease of, say, a computer.
In this week's episode of "The Rabbit Hole" on The Chopra Well, Deepak Chopra takes us into the inner working of the global brain, shaped by social networks and technology. Every time you learn something new online or connect with another part of the world via Facebook or Twitter, your brain paves fresh neural pathways . Why the Global Brain needs a Therapist « Utopia or Dystopia. The idea that the world itself could be considered an overarching form of mind can trace its roots deep into the religious longings of pantheism- the idea that the universe itself is God, or the closest thing we will ever find to our conception of God. In large part, I find pantheists to be a noble group. Any club that might count as its members a philosophical giant like Spinoza, a paradigm shattering genius such as Einstein, or a songbird like Whitman I would be honored to belong to myself.
But alas, I have my doubts about pantheism- at least in particular its contemporary manifestation in the form of our telecommunications and computer networks being granted the status of an embryonic “global brain”. I wish it were so, but all the evidence seems to point in the other direction. Key figures in this idea that our communications networks might constitute the neural passageways of a great collective brain predate the Internet by more than a generation. EAGLEMAN: Yeah. Science & Consciousness Review. An Update on Global Workspace Theory The idea that consciousness has an integrative function has a long history. The late Francisco Varela and colleagues called it the “brainweb” (2002). Global Workspace theory suggests a fleeting memory capacity that enables access between brain functions that are otherwise separate. The Global Brain ~ ✿ Gaian Spirit ✿ Globalization Studies in an Urban World.
Tim O'Reilly: Towards a global brain. Exploring Humanity's Evolving 'Global Brain' Building a global brain to solve sustainability puzzles. To solve the world's toughest problems, we may need a mind meld. Make that a mind-and-computer meld. Or, as everyone else calls it, collective intelligence. The idea of pooling minds and resources holds great promise for sustainability, O'Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly said Thursday at GreenBiz's VERGE DC conference.
"We're facing some pretty big problems in the world today," he said. "And the way we've been tackling them has struggled to keep up. " Of course, the concept of using computing to share information among people or devices is hardly new. But now people are taking collective intelligence further. Services like Zipcar and Relayrides were set up to use resources more efficiently by allowing people to rent cars from a pool of vehicles or from other people, respectively.
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