Human Energy Podcast

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...

On some informational aspects of our noosphere and beyond Presented by Manasvi Lingam at the N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, Berkeley. Information transmission (i.e., communication) is a striking facet of our biosphere and especially our noosphere. In this talk, I will highlight preliminary research on quantifying the global amount of information flow through the biosphere and noos...

The Third Story : self-organizing evolution as a source of meaning Presented by Francis Heylighen as part of Human Energy's 2023 N2 Conference at the University of California, Berkeley The Human Energy project intends to address the "Techno-Social Dilemma", which we define as the sense of anxiety, depression and despair in the present Information Age. That dilemma can be understood...

The Evidence for an Expanded Noosphere Presented by Kevin Kelly   as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley The Noosphere is more than a metaphor. We can treat it as a large-scale physical specimen that we can inspect and describe. The verifiable evidence for the existence of a planetary super-organism with autonomy (PSA) is in three parts: evidenc...

Large Language Models: Portals To The Noosphere Presented by Gregory Stock with Sadie Stock as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, Berkeley Recent advances in AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), may soon erode the perceived primacy of individual thought and consciousness. Our planetary superorganism continues to evolve, and a dramatic leap has now...

Connectivity and Cultural Heritage: Enabling access to humanity's rich legacy Presented by Elizabeth Lee as part of Human Energy's 2023 N2 Conference at the University of California, Berkeley This presentation will discuss CyArk's mission, its history, and its place-based philosophy. The presentation will highlight collaborations like the 'Sacred Places' exhibition with th...

A Landscape of Consciousness in the Noosphere: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications Presented by Robert Lawrence Kuhn as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley Learn more about Robert's work at Closer to Truth . In Teilhard de Chardin’s grand vision, the noosphere is an emergent entity that reflects the evolution of complexity in...

Presented by Jaron Lanier as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality. Learn more at https://humanenergy.io

AGI and Collective Intelligence: Critical Synergies Presented by Ben Goertzel  as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley Learn more: https://humanenergy.io/