Human Energy Podcast
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
What is human energy? An investigation into life, experience and evolution | Michael Jacob | N2 2024
Discover how human energy, creativity, and the Noosphere are interconnected in Michael Jacob's compelling N2 2024 presentation.
Drawing on the visionary work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jacob explores the concept of "meta-aliveness" and how our individual and collective energy drives conscious evolution. From the hidden creativity of cells and brains to the transformative power of imagination, this talk bridges science, poetry, and mystery to illuminate humanity's role in shaping the future. Watch to learn how embracing the unknown can unlock the noosphere's full potential.
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change.
Michael Jacob's presentation:
What is human energy? An investigation into life, experience and evolution
Human energy is the vital link between our personal, individual lives and the living, evolutionary potential of the noosphere. This presentation will move beyond abstract conceptualizations of human energy that describe it as a physical, biological, and moral force, to incorporate experiential knowledge in the service of conscious evolution.
Conscious evolution is how the noosphere enables evolvability: the capacity to increase the probability of an evolutionary outcome. As a fuel for evolvability, human energy reflects a natural extension of biological processes that utilize surplus metabolic energy for adaptive evolution. This latent energy leverages serendipitous interactions within biochemical, neural, and social networks to constellate innovative pathways. As a result of this creative energy, organisms are more than literally “alive” (surviving) but are “meta-alive,” (flourishing and evolvable). This presentation explores the radical hypothesis of human energy: when we feel metaphorically alive, the noosphere is biologically alive.
Nonetheless, biological descriptions are insufficient to capture the felt experience of human energy. Making meaning of this experience, which often takes the form of a vital calling in one’s life, requires biology and poetry. What emerges from this creative process cannot be predicted, but is nourished through the energy of the arts, music, and literature (the humanities). I propose that through our human energy, we are creatively called to participate in the noosphere and awaken it to life. This work and its scholarly support requires us to build a transdisciplinary bridge between the biological sciences and the humanities.
N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐
The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution.
N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future.
We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere.
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