PDF-(BOOK)-Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a longstanding interest in evolution Ill just assimilate Howard Blooms accomplishment and my amazementDAVID SMILLIE Visiting Professor of Zoology Duke University In this extraordinary followup to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle Howard Bloomone of todays preeminent thinkersoffers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga He shows how plants and animals including humans have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is in fact a complex adaptive system a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious sometimes unknowing role and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain These are theories as important as they are radical Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality As he brings us back via surprising routes we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillionmember research and development teams a full 35 billion years ago We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites hunting packs of dinosaurs feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks troops of baboons making communal decisions and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world Along the way Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms spiny lobsters which during the Paleozoic age participated in communal marching rituals and bees which during the age of dinosaurs conducted collective brainwork This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as realityGlobal Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution It is a grand vision says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why. 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Updated February 2013Adopted by the NCTE Executive CommitteeNovember 19 2008Context for NCTEs 21st Century Literacies FrameworkIn the 1990s the National Council of Teachers of English and the Internat In this book, Heying and Weinstein cut through the politically fraught discourse surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than 20 years of research and first-hand accounts from the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth into straightforward principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty.For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is clear: the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today most people don\'t even know their neighbors\' names. Differences between the sexes once served a necessary evolutionary purpose, but today many dismiss the concept of biological sex as offensive. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we\'re not built for is killing us. In this book, Heying and Weinstein cut through the politically fraught discourse surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than 20 years of research and first-hand accounts from the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth into straightforward principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty.For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is clear: the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today most people don\'t even know their neighbors\' names. Differences between the sexes once served a necessary evolutionary purpose, but today many dismiss the concept of biological sex as offensive. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we\'re not built for is killing us. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning EC-TEL 2012 held in Saarbr252cken Germany in September 2012. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The book also includes 12 short papers 16 demonstration papers 11 poster papers and 1 invited paper. Specifically the programme and organizing structure was formed through the themes mobile learning and context serious and educational games collaborative learning organisational and workplace learning learning analytics and retrieval personalised and adaptive learning learning environments academic learning and context and learning facilitation by semantic means.