Global Brain

Relevant Links

First Global Brain Workshop (2001)

"From Intelligent Networks to the Global Brain"
Evolutionary Social Organization through Knowledge Technology
The First Global Brain Workshop (GBrain 0)

Global Brain Reference list

References on the Global Brain / Superorganism

On the Principia Cybernetica web a collection of basic references, grouped by author, that explore the idea of the emerging planetary organism and its global brain, in the chronological order of first publication.

Global Brain FAQ

From the Principia Cybernetica web this FAQ is based was largely inspired by the discussions on the global brain mailing list.

The Global Brain Group

"The Global Brain Group has been created to discuss the emergence of a global brain out of the computer network, which would function as a nervous system for the human superorganism. It promotes all theoretical and experimental work that may contribute to the elaboration of global brain theory, including the practical implementation of global brain-like computer systems, and the diffusion of global brain ideas towards a wider public, e.g. by the organization of conferences or publication of books on the subject."

Design Criteria for a Global Brain

Paper presented by Shann Turnbull at the First Global Brain Workshop

Human Cognome (pdf file)

The major themes that the Human Cognome Project will address:

1. Cognitive prostheses for human limitations.
2. Reduce fragmentation of social-psychological disciplines.
3. Visual language to manage complexity.
4. Understanding each other's worldviews.
5. Sequencing the Human Cognome.

World Wide Web

Precursor to a Global Brain

WWW to Superbrain

According to the Principia Cybernetica Web, 'The present World-Wide Web, the distributed hypermedia interface to the information available on the Internet, is in a number of ways similar to a human brain, and is likely to become more so as it develops. The core analogy is the one between hypertext and associative memory. Links between hyperdocuments or nodes are similar to associations between concepts as they are stored in the brain. However, the analogy goes much further, including the processes of thought and learning. ... '

WWW as Super-brain

Avaialable on the Principia Cybernetica Web:
Heylighen F. & Bollen J. (1996) "The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: from metaphor to model", in: Cybernetics and Systems '96 R. Trappl (ed.), (Austrian Society for Cybernetics).p. 917-922.

Towards a Global Brain

Avaialble on the Principia Cybernetica Web:
Heylighen F. (1997): "Towards a Global Brain. Integrating Individuals into the World-Wide Electronic Network", in: Der Sinn der Sinne, Uta Brandes & Claudia Neumann (Ed.) (Steidl Verlag, G%uFFFDttingen) [in press]

Related Lenses

Cybernetics

DHC Soul lens relating to Cybernetics