Human Energy Podcast
Episodes
A Human Energy White Paper – Clément Vidal – N2 Conference
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Human Energy White Paper Presented by Clément Vidal as part of Human Energy's 2023 N2 Conference at the University of California, Berkeley ...
Can Science Alone Advance the Noosphere? – Ilia Delio – N2 Conference
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can Science Alone Advance the Noosphere? Understanding Teilhard's Omega PrinciplePresented by Ilia Delio as part of Human Energy's 2023 N2 C...
On Being a Noospheric Species – Terrence Deacon – N2 Conference
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Being a Noospheric SpeciesPresented by Terrence Deacon as part of Human Energy's 2023 N2 Conference at the University of California, Berkeley ...
Science of the Noosphere – Evolution of Technology – Kevin Kelly
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Kelly is an icon of the Internet Age. He co-founded Wired Magazine in 1993, where his current title is “Senior Maverick”. In the 1980s he wa...
Science of the Noosphere – Envisioning the Future Through Story – PJ Manney and David Brin
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation between two science fiction writers — PJ Manney and David Brin — and Science of the Noosphere’s David Sloan Wilson, is the las...
Science of the Noosphere – Collective Consciousness – Marta Lenartowicz
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is one sense in which people conceive of the noosphere as a futuristic planetary-scale entity of some sort—a fully functional superorganism wi...
Science of the Noosphere – Cosmological Evolution – Brian Thomas Swimme
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of Science of the Noosphere’s central goals is to update Teilhard’s vision of the Noosphere with scientific discoveries that have been made si...
Science of the Noosphere – Wikipedia as Superorganism – Risker/Anne Clin
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the series of conversations that contribute to our exploration of the Science of the Noosphere, there is a great deal of discussion about the forma...
Science of the Noosphere – Risks and Benefits of AI – Stuart Russell and Terrence Deacon
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As with any form of technology, artificial intelligence has the potential to greatly benefit humankind, along with the potential to do real harm. Deci...
Science of the Noosphere – Collective Consciousness and the Web – Francis Heylighen and Shima Beigi
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Francis Heylighen collaborated with Shima Beigi on a research paper about the noosphere’s response to the gl...
Science of the Noosphere – The Global Commons – David Bollier and John Arquilla
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an earlier Science of the Noosphere conversation with John Arquilla that was focused on an article titled “Whose Story Wins: Rise of the Noospher...
Science of the Noosphere – Teilhard and the Noosphere – Clément Vidal
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clément Vidal is a member of the research and development team of Human Energy, who identifies himself on his webpage as a big questions philosopher....
Science of the Noosphere – A Brain of Brains – Michael Jacob
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Jacob is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of California in San Francisco, working on a project for Human Energy about the G...
Science of the Noosphere – Smart Cities – Shima Beigi
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation between Shima Beigi and Science of the Noosphere’s David Sloan Wilson focuses on Shima’s book, Mindful Smart Cities: Rethinking ...
Science of the Noosphere – The Global Brain – Francis Heylighen
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teilhard’s description of the noosphere covers various manifestations of human cultural and technological evolution. In explaining his vision as a “...
Science of the Noosphere – Noopolitik and Realpolitik – John Arquilla
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We first became aware of John Arquilla through a paper he wrote with David Ronfeldt, published by the RAND Corporation in 2020, titled “Whose Story ...
Science of the Noosphere – Origin of Multicellularity – Paul Rainey & Rick Michod
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Rainey is director of the Department of Microbial Population Biology at the Max Planck Institute. Rick Michod has a lab at the University of Ariz...
Science of the Noosphere – Cancer, Cheating, and Cell Communication – Athena Aktipis & Michael Levin
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Athena Aktipis is the director and principal investigator at the Cooperation and Conflict Lab at Arizona State University, where they “explore how c...
Science of the Noosphere – Coevolution of Humans and Technology – Gregory Stock
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of humanity merging with technology to form a global superorganism began to take shape in Gregory Stock’s mind in the 1960s, though his ...
Science of the Noosphere – Expanding Scale of Human Society – Peter Turchin & Daron Acemoglu
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Central to our mission at Science of the Noosphere is an exploration of the modern scientific perspective on how the noosphere evolved and expanded ov...
Science of the Noosphere – Origins of Democracy in Classical Greece – Josiah Ober
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josiah Ober writes about the evolution of democratic governance in classical Greece — the era from roughly 500-300 BC. His books on the subject incl...
Science of the Noosphere – Human Groups as Organisms – Jim Coan & Garriy Shteynberg
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of psychology, it’s likely the first image that comes to mind is of a therapist in consultation with an individual patient. To explore...
Science of the Noosphere – Indigenous Views of Society – Tyson Yunkaporta & Megan Kelleher
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tyson Yunkaporta is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. His short bio explains that “his work focuses on applying I...
Science of the Noosphere – Human Origins – Lesley Newson & Pete Richerson
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On his website, Pete Richerson introduces himself by stating, “My main passion is cultural evolution.” It’s not only his personal passion — al...
Science of the Noosphere – Insect Superorganisms – Deborah Gordon
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Gordon is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University who “studies how ant colonies work without central control using n...
Science of the Noosphere – Origin of Life – Bruce Damer & Matthew Segall
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to his bio, Bruce Damer “has spent his life pursuing two great questions: How did life on Earth begin, and how can we give that life (and ...
Science of the Noosphere – Major Evolutionary Transitions – Eörs Szathmáry & Terrence Deacon
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eörs Szathmáry is best-known in the world of evolutionary biology for a book he co-wrote with John Maynard Smith, titled “The Major Transitions in...