Human Energy Podcast

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere . In this episode we investigate how development of tools and technology in the Classical stage of humanity contributed to the development of the noosphere. Humanity's development of tools and technology have given us perspective and power to intimately engage with the planet.  We are now a planetary power filled with potential en...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere . In this episode we investigate how increase in population in the Neolithic stage of humanity contributed to the emergence of the noosphere through the deepening bonds with one another.  This can be seen as an expression of the cosmic law of love. Love is the foundational dynamic for the universe's development.  The elements of t...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere . In this episode, we show how trading networks during the Neolithic stage of humanity advanced the emergence of the noosphere. With the advent of humans, a new form of animal interaction, called trade, was initiated on planet Earth. By examining the power of trade networks, we get a clear view of the way trade has led to greater intel...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere   Throughout the three billion years of life on Earth, the mysterious power we call intelligence has deepened and spread. We are now in the midst of an irruption of this intelligence, an emergence so vast we refer to it as a global brain.  It amounts to a transformation of the evolutionary process itself. Join us as we investigate cere...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores humanity today is in great need of a pathway into harmonious global community. In this episode, we investigate the way in which Neolithic humans constructed a particularly powerful mode of communication -- the ritual -- as a powerful means for meeting this challenge. --- Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io  ...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores how over the last million years, the human mind has been assembled through a series of awakenings.  One of the most powerful awakenings is that of symbolic imagination.  Coming to understand the evocation of symbolic imagination can help us navigate our present moment, where we are witnessing and participating in the awake...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the creative power of synergy that emerges through the union of two or more entities.  The power and presence of synergy permeates every level of the universe.  Here we explore examples of synergy at the quantum, celestial, and biological levels.  Our hope is that a deeper and more detailed relationship to the universal po...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the power of humanity’s ever-deepening relationship with time through the tools they create.  In this episode, we examine the discovery of the year in the Neolithic stage of humanity.    Knowing what time it is has been a source of knowledge and a cause for celebration throughout human history.  In this video, we add to th...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the wonder of seed and topsoil and cultural heredity, the process through which Neolithic humans formed an intimate relationship with life's principles and dynamics. Neolithic insights, modern science, and the emergence of the noosphere have allowed humans to have an intimate and detailed understanding of the developm...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the beginnings of life's turn from diversification to convergence in the Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of heredity in the Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of trade in the Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an eme...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere  and explores the development of self-consciousness in the Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is people like you w...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of communication in the Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores the development of tools in the Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io ​​ Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores how increase in magnitude and diversity in population led to the emergence of the noosphere.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io ​ Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be not...

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere and explores cerebralization in Paleolithic stage of humanity.  Part of the Story of the Noosphere series. Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io ​ Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up. Share the love. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of new content by Human Energy. It is...

Tomas Veloz Centre Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Complex Adaptive Systems, the Noosphere, and Artificial Intelligence In this presentation, we will explore formal conceptualizations of key elements required to understand the Noosphere aiming at a scientific perspective that bridges to artificial intelligence. Examples of these concept...

Stefan Leijnen Utrecht University of Applied Sciences N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Purposeful AI between Biosphere and Noosphere Artificial intelligence developed within the machine learning paradigm is capable of producing models of unbounded complexity, far beyond the scope of human understanding. Deep learning, attention networks and foundation models have pushed subseq...

Sheila Hassell Hughes Saint Mary’s College of California N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley There are four layers above the earth and four layers below. Sometimes in our dreams and creations we pass through the layers, which are also space and time. In saying the word nindinawemaganidok, or my relatives, we speak of everything that has existed in time, the known and the unknown,...

Presented by John Smart as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, Berkeley JOHN SMART FORESIGHT SPEAKER, CONSULTANT, AUTHOR John Smart is a global futurist, foresight consultant, and entrepreneur. He is CEO of Foresight University (Ann Arbor, MI and Los Gatos, CA), a foresight training consultancy. He is also founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, a no...

Heinrich Volmink Ubuntu Global Network University of the Witwatersrand Stellenbosch University N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Focus/background: Ubuntu is an African philosophy which broadly translates to mean “a person is a person by virtue of other people” or “I am because we are.” It is thus an ethic that strongly relates to interconnectedness and empathy. In early post-Ap...

Boris Shoshitaishvili from the Berggruen Institute presents his talk at the N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California Berkeley. The Noosphere and the Harmony of the Spheres: Bringing Techno-, Info-, and Biospheres into Planetary Alignment The noosphere is an early (and enduring) paradigm of human "planetary identity" that goes beyond some of the limitations of traditional cosmop...

Ayeh Kashani California Institute of Integral Studies N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley From Noosphere to Omega Point: Schelling, Grof, and the Experiential Birth of the Cosmic Christ This presentation explores the evolutionary trajectory from the Noosphere to the Omega Point: intertwining the insights of Friedrich Schelling with the transformative experiences articulated by St...

Wolfgang Leidhold Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne (Germany) N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley The Noosphere and its Experiential Evolution: A Look at History and Future Perspectives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin first conceived the concept of the noosphere in 1923 and later positioned it in his theory of cosmogenesis, running from the geosphere via the...