Human Energy Podcast

Zann Gill A founder of GAIL (Generative AI Lab & Library). Former Research Scientist/ Program Developer at NASA. N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley  Noogenesis: Human + A.I. Agents Iterating toward Collaborative Intelligence Two extreme views contend in the A.I. debate: First: A.I. will drive the human species extinct. Second: A.I. will be a great equalizer and enabler. Huma...

Beyond Sovereignty and Submission: The complex role of the modern individual within the noosphere Presented by Ari Makridakis as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, Berkeley Alongside the emergence of the noosphere, the modern period has witnessed the birth of another, radically new planetary power: the autonomous, psychological individual. In this presentat...

Evolving the Self: Cognitive Sciences, the Extended Mind, and the Noosphere Presented by Abre Fournier (https://www.abrefournier.com/) and Brian Thomas Swimme at the N2 Conference 2023, University of California, Berkeley Through the span of the scientific and industrial revolutions of the past two centuries, the Western conception of the self, anchored in Cartesian dualistic metaphysics, has predo...

Presented by Floor Schukking N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Broadening the idea of intelligence in AI and the Noosphere The field of AI and the noosphere share a common interest in intelligence. The central paradigm in the current AI field is that once intelligent systems become advanced enough, they will solve our problems and society will benefit from these intelligent tec...

Presented by Emily DeMoor N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Literature of the Noosphere for Secondary Education The scientific study of the Earth’s evolution reveals cooperative and symbiotic relationships as effective strategies for major evolutionary transitions (MET). The next MET, which is already underway, is the creation of a Noosphere in which humans come together in a s...

Presented by Parham Pourdavood & Michael Jacob N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley An approach to noospheric geography is proposed to examine the possibility that human populations, technology, economics, and flows of culture and information reflect components of a unified, living system. Extending our prior multiscale, biological model of interdependence, we present initial...

N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley  Stefan Leijnen, Olaf Witkowski, Floor Schukking, Tomas Veloz Present a roundtable discussion titled AI and the Noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io

Presented by Shima Beigi N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Fostering Noospheric Urban Living with Mindful Smart Cities By 2050, more than 68% of the world's population will live in cities, intensifying urbanisation's pressures on ecological systems and amplifying the demand for reliable infrastructure, robust systems, social cohesion, and healthier communities. This e...

Hybrid Beings Presented by Olaf Witkowski N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley In this talk, we delve into symbiotic interactions between autonomous forms of intelligence, including humans, animals, artificial beings, and others, regardless of their embodiments or substrates. Grounded in rigorous scientific study of agents, this talk examines the possibilities and limitations of h...

Humanity's New Awareness: The Grandeur of Cosmogenesis and the Quest of Divinization Presented by Monica DeRaspe-Bolles & Brian Thomas Swimme N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Humanity stands on the cusp of a transformative realization. Emerging from its evolutionary journey as a distinct phylum and intertwined with the universe's 13.8 billion-year history, humani...

Nurturing the Noosphere on College Campuses: Challenges and Successes Presented by John D. Cressler N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley   Today’s college students, bright and capable as they are, face challenges to their well-being that few of us faced at their age. Smartphone-free alone time is becoming a rare luxury, and the inevitably addictive distraction of e-Gadgets often s...

In this roundtable discussion Bob Chapman, Jay Jakub, Gregory Stock, David Sloan Wilson, and Ben Kacyra discuss the possibility for business leaders to heal the noosphere. We examine the theory and reality learnings from foremost experts and CEOs of large business groups. Presented by Michael Pirson N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Learn more at https://humanenergy.io

Wikipedia: Leveraging the global collaborative encyclopedia to support education and knowledge-sharing around the world Presented by Anne Clin N2 Conference 2023 University of California, Berkeley Over the past 20 years, Wikipedia has become a major information resource on the internet. It is the only online encyclopedia whose content is created and managed entirely by an enormous volunteer workfo...

Noospheric Consciousness: What Might That Be? How Can We Study It? Roundtable Discussion Michael Jacob, Ilia Delio, Terrence Deacon & Francis Heylighen N2 Conference 2023 Watch on YouTube Learn more at https://humanenergy.io

Transdisciplinary Language for Noospheric Consciousness: Neuroscience, Music, Mysticism Presented by Michael Jacob N2 Conference 2023 Watch on YouTube The study of noospheric consciousness demands a radical transdisciplinary approach. Given the major themes of the N2 conference: science, philosophy, politics, theology, and education - what ties them together? Can these disciplines contribute to a...

Noospheric Experience Presented by Brian Thomas Swimme and Wolfgang Leidhold at Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. Learn more at https://humanenergy.io

Toward an Evolutionary Ecology of the Noosphere Presented by Jacob Foster as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley In this talk, I will explore the noosphere by close analogy with the biosphere -- in other words, I will advance concepts and methods for investigating the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of the noosphere. Drawing on ideas from c...

How Right Was Teilhard? (from a scientific point of view) Presented by Robert Wright as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley Teilhard de Chardin’s conception of the noosphere was shaped by his Christian faith and, more generically, by a philosophical orientation that was fundamentally religious and spiritual. This orientation helps account for se...

Shaping Noospheric Adults with Montessori Cosmic Education Presented by Jennifer Morgan N2 Conference 2023 Montessori schools worldwide are daily shaping Noospheric adults of tomorrow through Montessori Cosmic Education, one of the first curricula to situate all learning inside the larger arc of cosmic evolution. Montessori Cosmic Education centers on: enthusing students to their inmost core, nest...

The Noospheric Frame of Mind Presented by Marta Lenartowicz as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 Watch on YouTube The psychologist Christopher Bollas claims that democracy is not merely a political arrangement: it is a theory of the mind. If my inner life is an authoritarian dominion that never relinquishes control and prohibits internal dissent, can I ever truly value the irreducible...

Collective Emotions: Distortions and Belief Traps Presented by Johan Bollen as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 Large-scale social media data may provide a window into the language, emotions, cognition, and behavior of millions of individuals. In my talk I will discuss the notion of collective emotions and how they can be observed in real-time from large-scale social media data. I wi...

Transcendence and Modernity : beyond the misconception Presented by Raphael Liogier Presented as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 One of my essential hypotheses is that modernity is not at all, as we think usually, the disenchantment of the world, the questioning of transcendence, but quite the contrary, it is the unprecedented promise of raw transcendence (transcendance unrefined by...

The Science of the Noosphere Master Class: An Experiment in Worldview Evolution  Presented by David Sloan Wilson as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley During the summer of 2023, I led a group on a journey from the origin of life to the future of the Internet Age, using Human Energy's Science of the Noosphere series of video conversions as...

The Meaning of Noosphere in Teilhard's Cosmic Vision Presented by John Haught After Einstein, scientists began to realize that the universe is not a mere backdrop or vague setting for life and human history but "the greatest story ever told." Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit geologist, was one of the first scientists in the twentieth century to have noticed that issues in science and...

Polarity in the Noosphere: Reading Teilhard through Pope Francis Presented by Keith Lemna as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley I shall explore the Teilhardian noosphere idea in light of the challenges to humanity and the planet, in the looming face of technological developments present and future, as spelled out by Pope Francis in Laudato Si&a...