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. It is our collective intelligence.
Every tweet, wall post, blog comment, and review is indexed by Google, Bing, and other search engines. As the body of metadata continues to grow, it becomes even more meaningful and intelligent, giving life to this dynamic global brain. Genetic Atlas Yields a Brainbow of Cognitive Information. Beverly Macy (BeverlyMacy) sur Twitter. Call-Global_Brain_Mind. Nova Spivack : Bienvenue dans le Flux. Entrepreneur, (Radar Networks, Lucid Ventures), pionnier du web sémantique, Nova Spivack – à l’origine de twine.com – développe une vision stratégique des nouvelles technologies et des nouveaux médias. Il m’a autorisée – et je l’en remercie - à publier la traduction d’un billet qu’il vient de faire paraître, Bienvenue dans le flux, qui fait le point sur un phénomène que nous constatons tous, lié à l’apparition de nouvelles applications en temps réel et qu’il prend très au sérieux, considérant qu’il s’agit là d’un nouvel âge du web. Bienvenue dans le Flux : un nouvel âge pour le Web Par Nova Spivack, fondateur de twine.com Internet a commencé à évoluer plusieurs décennies avant l’apparition du Web.
Et malgré le fait qu’aujourd’hui la plupart des gens pensent qu’Internet et le Web, c’est la même chose, en réalité ce sont deux choses bien distinctes. Et tout juste comme le Web a émergé à la pointe de l’internet, quelque chose de nouveau émerge à la pointe du Web : j’appelle cela le Flux. Meta Search Alerts. 001-20 PLATFORM Planetary Nervous System.pdf. The interspecies internet: Peter Gabriel and Vint Cerf at TED2013.
Photos: James Duncan Davidson The internet connects people all over the world. But could the internet also connect us with dolphins, apes, elephants and other highly intelligent species? In a bold talk in Session 10 of TED2013, four incredible thinkers come together to launch the idea of the interspecies internet. Each takes four minutes to talk, then passes the metaphorical baton, building the narrative in parts. The talk begins with Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist who studies intelligence in animals. She shows us a video of an adorable dolphin twirling in the water. “A dolphin has self-awareness,” says Reiss.
Reiss shares her work with dolphins — she’s been teaching them to communicate through an underwater keyboard of symbols that correspond to whistles and playful activities. “You can’t get more alien than the dolphin. Reiss was conducting this work on her own. “I make noises for a living, and on a good day it’s music,” says Gabriel. “She discovers a note she likes. Twitter and the Global Brain « Thoughtful Cog. The prevailing model for many years of how synapses between neurons in the brain are altered during learning has been Hebbian learning, which can be summarized as “neurons that fire together, wire together”. In other words, in two neurons fire at the same time, the connection(s) between them will strengthened. But recent evidence in neuroscience shows the truth is actually an interested twist on this idea – a twist that could have important implications as a model of how global consciousness could emerge from real-time social media like Twitter.
In reality, synapses are modified according to a rule called Spike Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP). In a nutshell, STDP says that if two neurons fire (= spike) in rapid succession, the connection from the one that fires first to the one that fires second will be strengthened. STDP is a simple idea, but it has been shown to be a surprisingly powerful way that the brain uses for rapid pattern recognition and classification [1][2] . [2] 1. Like this: Global Brain. Matrioshka brain. A matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure proposed by Robert Bradbury, based on the Dyson sphere, of immense computational capacity. It is an example of a Class B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems.[1] This concept derives its name from Russian Matrioshka dolls.[2] Concept[edit] The term "matrioshka brain" was invented by Robert Bradbury as an alternative to the "Jupiter brain"—a concept similar to the matrioshka brain, but on a smaller planetary scale and optimized for minimum signal propagation delay.
A matrioshka brain design is concentrated on sheer capacity and the maximum amount of energy extracted from its source star, while a Jupiter brain is more optimized for computational speed.[3] Such a structure would be composed of at least two but typically more Dyson spheres built around a star, and nested one inside another. Possible uses[edit] [edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] "Matrioshka Micronode". ‘Crowdsourcer’ Mark Walsh Picks the Global Brain. “More Parks sausages, Mom! Please?” Today’s Maryland children don’t remember the series of sausage ads that ran for decades beginning in the 1950s — but their parents do.
Little known fact: The familiar plaintive entreaty doesn’t actually come from the little boy featured in the ads. It’s a voiceover performed by none other than Mark Walsh’s mother. Her proud son fills in the details: “You know that ad? During Maryland Gov. In Walsh’s eyes, there was no better talent to pull in than his own mother at that stage of the campaign. But O’Malley didn’t bite on the Parks sausage pitch.
To Walsh, whose brain seems to be in a state of constant storm, the idea still holds the gold-nugget promise of immediate recognition, instant sell — and a fair fee for his mom, of course. He can’t let it go, saying: “There must be someone out there, someone who’s running for something, who will use this.” Mining Gold From the Mosh Pit Walsh has sharpened this concept into a business model with GeniusRocket. Birth of the global mind. The best symbiosis of man and computer is where a program learns from humans but notices things they would not Global consciousness. We’ve heard that before. In the 1960s we were all going to be mystically connected; or it would come as a super-intelligent machine – Terminator’s Skynet – that is inimical to humanity.
And yet, what if the reality is more mundane? Computer scientist Danny Hillis once remarked, “Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.” And of course, the mechanism by which the Sanka brand colour became a near-universal symbol for decaffeinated coffee in the US is exactly the same one by which hundreds of millions of people have a shared knowledge of Lady Gaga, Newton, Einstein and Darwin, and, for that matter, of many things both true and untrue.
What is different today, though, is the speed with which knowledge propagates. When the web goes mobile, even more interesting things start to happen. @T: ALWAYS THE TWAIN »Home. IF Conversations: Howard Bloom on the Global Brain. The Genesis of Mind. The Genesis of Mind The Brain PuzzleThe Mind- a Machine? What is the Brain? Evolution of the BrainImportance of SpeechLanguage and Thought of the ChildEyes, Hand BrainVygotsky and PiagetThe Emergence of LanguageSocialisation of Thought "Organic nature grew out of dead nature; living nature produced a form capable of thought. First, we had matter, incapable of thought; out of which developed thinking matter, man.
If this is the case—and we know it is, from natural science—it is plain that matter is the mother of mind; mind is not the mother of matter. Children are never older than their parents. "The interpretation of brain mechanisms represents one of the last remaining biological mysteries, the last refuge of shadowy mysticism and dubious religious philosophy. " For centuries, as we have seen, the central issue of philosophy was the question of the relation between thought and being. "When it became impossible to investigate this non-material element of creation many dismissed it.
Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind. “The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex ‘multicellular minds,‘" says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires, Make magazine.) Speech allowed us to communicate and coordinate. Writing allowed that coordination to span time and space. Twentieth century mass communications allowed shared information and culture to blanket the world. In the 21st century, memes spread mind to mind in nearly real time. But that's not all.
In one breakthrough computer application after another, we see a new kind of man-machine symbiosis. The Google autonomous vehicle turns out not to be just a triumph of artificial intelligence algorithms. The future belongs not to artificial intelligence, but to collective intelligence. The global mind is us, augmented Echoing Dale Dougherty, he says the Web has become the leading platform for harnessing collective intelligence.
The global mind is not an artificial intelligence. Universe Grows Like A Brain | Social Networks. The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation. The results, published Nov.16 in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports, suggest that some undiscovered, fundamental laws may govern the growth of systems large and small, from the electrical firing between brain cells and growth of social networks to the expansion of galaxies. "Natural growth dynamics are the same for different real networks, like the Internet or the brain or social networks," said study co-author Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of California San Diego. The new study suggests a single fundamental law of nature may govern these networks, said physicist Kevin Bassler of the University of Houston, who was not involved in the study.
[What's That? "At first blush they seem to be quite different systems, the question is, is there some kind of controlling laws can describe them? " By raising this question, "their work really makes a pretty important contribution," he said. The Strange Neuroscience of Immortality. By Evan R. Goldstein Cambridge, Mass. Illustrations by Harry Campbell for The Chronicle Review In the basement of the Northwest Science Building here at Harvard University, a locked door is marked with a pink and yellow sign: "Caution: Radioactive Material.
" Inside researchers buzz around wearing dour expressions and plastic gloves. Among them is Kenneth Hayworth. He's tall and gaunt, dressed in dark-blue jeans, a blue polo shirt, and gray running shoes. Hayworth has spent much of the past few years in a windowless room carving brains into very thin slices. Why? But first he has to die. "If your body stops functioning, it starts to eat itself," he explains to me one drab morning this spring, "so you have to shut down the enzymes that destroy the tissue.
" It's the kind of scheme you expect to encounter in science fiction, not an Ivy League laboratory. To understand why Hayworth wants to plastinate his own brain you have to understand his field—connectomics, a new branch of neuroscience. W. Brain Preservation Foundation. A Computable Universe: Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation. Author: Hector Zenil Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (5/31/2012) This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature. It focuses on two main questions: What is computation? The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational understanding of the universe.
The volume provides a state-of-the-art collection of technical papers and non-technical essays, representing a field that assumes information and computation to be key in understanding and explaining the basic structure underpinning physical reality. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Alan M Turing — the inventor of universal computation, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and is part of the Turing Centenary celebrations. "global brain" -inurl:(kelkoo|bizrate|pixmania|dealtime|pricerunner|dooyoo|pricegrabber|pricewatch|resellerratings|ebay|shopbot|comparestoreprices|ciao|unbeatable|shopping|epinions|nextag|buy|bestwebbuys) Towards a Global Brain. Peter Russell More informations about Peter Russel Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world. The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram To fully understand the significance of today's developments in the area of communications, we need to go back in time to consider the social changes that have occurred over the last two hundred years.
In this short period, the thrust of human activity has altered significantly. Prior to the eighteenth century, the majority of the population (about 90 percent) was employed in the production of foodÑagriculture and fishing, for instanceÑand its distribution. This percentage had stayed constant for hundreds of years, the actual number increasing at about the same rate as the population itself. For the next seventy years, industry was the dominant activity in the U.S.A. Language Links The Digital Revolution The Net Merging Technologies.