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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.
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The Noospheric Frame of Mind - Marta Lenartowicz - N2 Conference
The Noospheric Frame of Mind
Presented by Marta Lenartowicz as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023
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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 difference brought in by the existence of others? The way we conduct our minds spills over into our social relations. And if the ability to constructively partake in a group of people is already a sophisticated disposition which may remain underdeveloped, how does the challenge of relating well extend in the context of the entire noosphere?
Compared to a small assembly in which all voices are present and may be heard, the noosphere is filled with unknowns. It is unfathomable, ever more complex, internally inconsistent, ungoverned, always incomplete. The 'noospheric frame of mind,' able to relate to such complexity, demands a vast openness. The authoritarian need for closure doesn't do.
In my talk, I build a parallel between Bollas' democratic frame of mind and what I believe to be the necessary ingredients to the ability of adopting the noosphere as a meaningful context for living. Since the notion of the noosphere encompasses processes that exceed the biosphere, while all biological processes are already processes of cognition, I argue that it is possible for a human individual to fail at adopting the noospheric frame of mind entirely. Instead, one might operate psychologically and socially in an autopoietic manner, simply safeguarding an identity.
The noospheric mindset is not a given, it needs to be adopted, and the curriculum is not always comfortable. It includes relaxing psychological, conceptual, and operational closures, appreciating and advancing complexity, befriending the unknown, and learning to trust and let go!
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