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Pathway to the Global Brain (part 1/5): Introduction to Cybernetics
If you share this, please use the hashtags #GlobalBrain and/or #LongReads The Global Brain is a concept representing the hypothesized emergence of a higher-level distributed intelligence caused by...
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Pathway to the Global Brain (part 2/5): Waking Up
If you share this, please use the hashtags #GlobalBrain and/or #LongReads The Global Brain is a concept representing the hypothesized emergence of a higher-level distributed intelligence caused by...
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Early Cells, Early States (… and the future)
The pattern similarities between structures and phenomena at different levels of reality is really overwhelming. Sometimes it is hard to know if your mind is just imagining the similarity, or if there...
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Pathway to the Global Brain (part 3/5): Agriculture and Industry
If you share this, please use the hashtags #GlobalBrain and/or #LongReads The Global Brain is a concept representing the hypothesized emergence of a higher-level distributed intelligence caused by...
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Pathway to the Global Brain (part 4/5): Entering the Global Brain
Previously in the Pathway to the Global Brain blog series: (Part 1/5): Introduction to Cybernetics (Part 2/5): Waking Up (Part 3/5): Agriculture and Industry Global Brain So we have travelled...
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Does the Recent Homo Discovery Change Our Understanding of Human Evolution?
Originally posted via Huffington Post The recent discovery of a fantastically complete early Homo skull from Dmanisi, Georgia (dated to about 1.8 million years old) has set off a proverbial “bomb” in...
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Pathway to the Global Brain: A Lecture
I recently had a chance to share my thoughts on the Global Brain for the Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity group at Vrijie Universiteit Brussel earlier this month. To be more specific I was...
View ArticleWhere and When Did Humans Evolve?
Humans are a species that permanently inhabit every continent on the planet. But of course, like all other species, we’ve evolved. So where and when did this take place? Figuring out important...
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The End of Biological Reproduction?
Radical Life Extension / Image Credit: Alicia Hebert A recent paper I submitted to a special publication on radical life extension (RLE) has been reviewed and accepted for publication. The volume will...
View ArticleDid Hobbits Exist?
Transcript: Everyone knows that Lord of the Rings is a work of fiction. There is no evidence that JRR Tolkien’s elves, wizards, dwarves or orcs ever existed. But recent discoveries have raised an...
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