Human Energy Podcast

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...

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...