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Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
On Being a Noospheric Species – Terrence Deacon – N2 Conference
On Being a Noospheric Species
Presented by Terrence Deacon as part of Human Energy's 2023 N2 Conference at the University of California, Berkeley
Presentation Summary:
Teilhard argued that the human evolutionary process does not exhibit the pattern of diversification and specialization characteristic of biological evolution in general. Rather it has a convergent character. This has parallels with the current recognition that there have been major transitions in evolution that have involved the coming together of once autonomous organisms to form higher order composite organisms, such as multicellular organisms like us.
Symbolic communication (e.g. language) has contributed to this trend toward collective unification because of the way it enables thoughts to be shared and cognition to be collaborative. Yet it is only possible if one is embedded in a cooperative social group that maintains this shared interpretive capacity. In this respect, humans have long been part of a collaborative mental process, a noosphere.
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