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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
A Landscape of Consciousness in the Noosphere – Robert Lawrence Kuhn – N2 Conference
A Landscape of Consciousness in the Noosphere: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications
Presented by Robert Lawrence Kuhn as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley
Learn more about Robert's work at Closer to Truth.
In Teilhard de Chardin’s grand vision, the noosphere is an emergent entity that reflects the evolution of complexity in the universe and is constituted by the collective, planetary engagements of human minds. Human minds require consciousness and consciousness remains an amalgam of mysteries; even with advances in neuroscience, explanations of consciousness, rather than narrowing, are proliferating. I here array diverse explanations, or theories, of consciousness in a “landscape” of essences and mechanisms.
Categories: Materialism Theories (philosophical, neurobiological, homeostatic and affective, relational, and representational), Non-Reductive Physicalism, Quantum Theories, Integrated Information Theory, Panpsychisms, Monisms, Dualisms, Idealisms, Psi-Based Theories, Challenge Theories.
There are many subcategories, especially for Materialism Theories. Each explanation is self-described by its adherents, critique is minimal and only for clarification, and there is no attempt to adjudicate among the theories. The implications of categories or theories are assessed with respect to meaning/purpose/value (if any); AI consciousness; virtual immortality; and survival beyond death. A landscape of consciousness, I suggest, offers perspective.
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