f communication. Peter Russell’s notion of the Global Brain (1982) builds on the
electronic communication and nervous system metaphor of the noosphere to establish the idea
of the noosphere as a planetary global brain. Buckminster Fuller’s concepts for developing a
whole system design perception of the Earth - Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of
Thinking (1975) and Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969) - are also fundamental to a
theory of the noosphere as intrinsic to a view of the planet as an evolving organism, an
idea also articulated in James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis (1981).
Sheldrake has proposed that memories are better understood in terms of morphic resonance, a
process whereby patterns of activity in the past resonate with patterns in the present on the basis
of similarity, with this resonance passing across or through space and time from the past to the
present. He has discussed this hypothesis in detail in his book The Presence of the Past and it is
summarised in his book Science Set Free/The Science Delusion in Chapter 7.
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on that science was provisional and could NEVER B CERTAIN was, however, always there in the minds of good scientists.
The insights from the numerical analysis of fluid dynamics by Edward Lorenz and of population biology by Robert May revealed what IS called "deterministic chaos”. Systems like the weather, the motion of more than two astronomical bodies linked by gravitation, or more than two species in competition, are exceedingly sensitive to the initial conditions of their origin, and they evolve in a wholly unpredictable manner.
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ng by scientists has become a threat to the foundation on which science
has stood: the acceptance that nature is always the final arbiter and that hypothesis must always
be tested by experiment and observations in the real world.
James Lovelock
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y Art of the Possible event in November 1990; and my
subsequent encouragement through a string of other initiatives, for
others to associate themselves with my commitment to the concept of
an IDEA that Through [ART] ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE [NOW] • I
have very recently become a Synergy Member of the Buckminster Fuller
Institute and been invited to get involved with the Trimtab Space Camp
initiative • so having watched the Experiencial Space Research Lab
piece and listened to David McConville's Gaian Systems video and
the expanding worlds of Margullis and Lovelock, I would like to
suggest from my own humble standpoint that THE VERY BEST VIDEO
for all participants to first watch urgently, [IF] in[DEED] they haven't
already done so, IS the film which I have described as "THE MOST
EXPENSIVE EVER" because of the costs involved over decades to develop
and combine all of the equipment necessary and to launch [IT] ALL into
space to enable the production of same • namely Earth From Space.
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latest book, Novacene – a treatise on the future impact of Artificial Intelligence – was published last July. In it, he argues the world is moving into a new era which will be dominated by the emergence of superintelligent co... which will slowly but surely seize control of Earth from their human creators, and fuse with us into cyborgs. Far from viewing this as a sinister development which threatens a Terminator-style war between humans and machines, Lovelock offers a refreshingly upbeat view: that robots who will rule the world with our blessing and support, because they will need us just as much as we need them.
He decries our tendency to see technology as a threat, rather than a new stage in our evolutionary development – partly down to “the endless stream of stuff coming from Hollywood. It’s always ‘the cyber monsters are out to get you’. And I just think it’s time we changed that negative way of looking at things.” The rise of superintelligent computers has anyway already begun, he says, and will accelerate. “Supercomputers exist,” he smiles. “An iPhone is a supercomputer. It fits in your pocket and has wires just a few atoms thick. It could never be made by a human.”
“It’s just a short hop from where we are already to a world of cyborgs”, he says tapping his chest. “Slowly, imperceptibly we are all being dragged into a kind of mixed animal,” he says. “I’ve got a triple wire pacemaker in my heart and I’ve got hearing aids, so electronics is coming into my existence on quite a scale already.” He adds: “It’s nothing but advantage. It won’t be that there are monsters who are controlling us.”
Superintelligent machines, he adds, will help humans solve some of their most intractable problems – tackling a warming climate, providing sufficient food and resources and helping us to administer the increasingly complex urban civilisations in which we live.
They will need us to regulate the rest of the planet and perform many of the menial tasks required to keep Earth – or Gaia – in balance. Super intelligence will come to view us much like we ourselves view plants, he says.
“Plants are about a million times slower than we are, but the farmer doesn’t go out and get rid of them. We need them and it’s a good relationship. I don’t see why that shouldn’t be true with cyborgs.”
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