Human Energy Podcast
Science of the Noosphere – Envisioning the Future Through Story – PJ Manney and David Brin
This conversation between two science fiction writers — PJ Manney and David Brin — and Science of the Noosphere’s David Sloan Wilson, is the last in the series of conversations we’ve posted here. What does science fiction have to do with our quest to understand the modern scientific research that undergirds Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of a layer of human thought that envelops the earth?
While that global layer of thought is forming around and within us, it remains a work-in-progress, it is still, in many ways, struggling to take shape. Though planetary-scale cooperation and connectivity is evolving through such things as trade and communication, there is still plenty of conflict as well. Thus the vision expressed by Teilhard in The Phases and Future of the Noosphere remains aspirational at this point:
“We have found it possible to express the social totalization which we are undergoing in terms of a clearly identifiable biological process: proceeding from this we may surely look into the future and predict the course of the trajectory we are describing. Once we have accepted that the formation of a collective human organism, a Noosphere, conforms to the general law of recurrence which leads to the heightening of Consciousness in the universe as a function of complexity, a vast prospect opens before us. To what regions and through what phases may we suppose that the extension of the rising curve of hominization will carry us?
Immediately confronting us (indeed, already in progress) we have what may be called a “phase of planetization.”
Learn more: https://humanenergy.io/pj-manney-and-david-brin/
This conversation between two science fiction writers — PJ Manney and David Brin — and Science of the Noosphere’s David Sloan Wilson, is the last in the series of conversations we’ve posted here. What does science fiction have to do with our quest to understand the modern scientific research that undergirds Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of a layer of human thought that envelops the earth?
While that global layer of thought is forming around and within us, it remains a work-in-progress, it is still, in many ways, struggling to take shape. Though planetary-scale cooperation and connectivity is evolving through such things as trade and communication, there is still plenty of conflict as well. Thus the vision expressed by Teilhard in The Phases and Future of the Noosphere remains aspirational at this point:
“We have found it possible to express the social totalization which we are undergoing in terms of a clearly identifiable biological process: proceeding from this we may surely look into the future and predict the course of the trajectory we are describing. Once we have accepted that the formation of a collective human organism, a Noosphere, conforms to the general law of recurrence which leads to the heightening of Consciousness in the universe as a function of complexity, a vast prospect opens before us. To what regions and through what phases may we suppose that the extension of the rising curve of hominization will carry us?
Immediately confronting us (indeed, already in progress) we have what may be called a “phase of planetization.”
Learn more: https://humanenergy.io/pj-manney-and-david-brin/