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Global Brain or Global Mind?
The Global Brain hypothesis, very similar to the Gaia hypothesis, considers the Global Brain as the next stage in the evolution (of Universe and Humanity). A Global Brain is to be conceived as the next stratum in this evolution: a Metasystem Transition occurred. The individual brains of humans are to be compared with the brain cells of the metazoa at a lower evolutionary level: they do a part of the job, but they are unable to comprehend the global conscious activities of this Superbrain, being too "simple" for this intellectual activity. Contrasting with this approach, the Global Mind hypothesis [see http://noosphere.cc/globalmind.html ], conceived by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin without using this modern name, considers the next stage in evolution (in fact the current one) as a socialisation, as the development of a Noosphere, consisting in a continously progressing integration of the individual mind contents. This process culminates into a global or universal unanimity of minds, with an intense global interaction, but without losing the indivuality, and thus conserving the ability to stay aware of, and consciously control reality, each individual at the highest possible intellectual level. Of course, devices from Internet to direct computer-brain connections will significantly enhance this ability. The arguments for this hypothesis state that such a vision is perhaps more in compliance with the general laws of universal evolution.
Author: Stephane Bentebba (gintru[ at ]aol.com)
Date: Mar 17, 2002REPLY: the super organisation already exist
give me the proof that this meta organism doesnt already exist, and i zill beleive u, otherwise, i am conviced it already does,
the problem is to figure out what is it, how to handle its existance,
did u ever figure out how a single cell of our body can consider the existence of the whole body, and the spirit in it / despite all the cell can do 9despite all computer we can use .
Author: Nathan Piechocki (nate[ at ]slymotherfucker.com)
Date: 4 nov 2002REPLY: Evolution is Universal
Among others, a motif we see from the simplest viral civilization to human superorganisms is that as each "cell" is only capable of so much on its own but the sum of thousands -- billions -- of those beings is something of ever-greater complexity. In Ms. Bentebba's reply, she asked how a single cell of the human body considers the existence of the whole, and raised questions of the spirit. None will argue that a human body, a coalition of billions of expendable organisms, is insanely more complex than a single cell. So with the global body. As the leukocyte is limited in its ability to communicate and interact with its environment, its exact place in the universe, so with a single human "soul."
On the other hand, the human brain itself is a coalition of neurons, to which the rest of the body is forever subordinate. Individually, a neuron is capable of thousands of synapses -- communiques about environment, action, emotion. Collectively, though, they make a consciousness. Mass mind anyone?
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