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Nicole Foss (a.k.a. Stoneleigh of The Automatic Earth) answers questions following her talks on economics and preparedness, part 3 of 3. For more information, and to view Ms. Foss's full presentations, visit The Automatic Earth web site.
Recorded in Michigan by Aaron Wissner for a live event hosted by Local Future, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit educational organization.
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theautomaticearth.blogspot.com
Nicole Foss (a.k.a. Stoneleigh of The Automatic Earth) answers questions following her talks on economics and preparedness, part 3 of 3. For more information, and to view Ms. Foss's full presentations, visit The Automatic Earth web site.
Recorded in Michigan by Aaron Wissner for a live event hosted by Local Future, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit educational organization.
localfuture.org







![What Is The Global Brain? Francis Heylighen, Mixel Kiemen, Aaron Wissner | Local Future
What is the global brain? What role might it play in the future? Global Brain Institutes Francis Heylighen and Mixel Kiemen join Local Futures Aaron Wissner to discuss the concept of the Global Brain.
Related Concepts: global brain, world brain, earth brain, artificial intelligence, Global Brain Institute, Francis Heylighen, Mixel Kiemen, superintelligence, collective consciousness, transhumanism, emergence, neural network, cybernetics, machine learning, swarm intelligence, collective intelligence, digital library, wikipedia, The Wisdom of Crowds, noosphere, noology, noogenesis, civilization, super organism, superorganism, social organism, eusocial, eusociality, group mind, Gaia hypothesis, Earth, consciousness, civic intelligence, collective decision-making, crowd psychology, group behavior, smart mob, social information processing, stigmergy,
https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence
About Francis Heylighen
Francis Paul Heylighen (born 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization. He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels), where he directs the transdisciplinary research group on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition[1][2] and the Global Brain Institute. He is best known for his work on the Principia Cybernetica Project, his model of the Internet as a global brain, and his contributions to the theories of memetics and self-organization. He is also known, albeit to a lesser extent, for his work on gifted people and their problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Heylighen
I am a research professor at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), where I direct the transdisciplinary research group on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition, the Global Brain Institute, and soon the Center Leo Apostel. I am also affiliated with the Department of History, Art and Philosophy (HARP). I have for long been an editor of the Principia Cybernetica Project, an international organization for the collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy, which is now essentially dormant after the death of its founder, Valentin Turchin .
The main focus of my research is the origin and evolution of complex, and in particular intelligent, organization. How do systems emerge, self-organize, adapt and achieve some form of cognition? I approach these problems starting from an ontology of actions or processes: the building blocks of reality are not material particles or things, but interactions. Systems are then merely stabilized, self-producing networks of processes. I have worked in particular on the development of collective intelligence or distributed cognition, and its application to the emerging global brain. I have also been looking at how individual agents tackle challenges via action, exploration, and learning, and how their interactions become coordinated via connectionist networks and stigmergy.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
About Mixel Kiemen
Ive been deeply involved in the digital transformation area, starting with R&D project on augmented reality and Artificial Intelligence, but quickly moved to platforms for collective intelligence. With 15 years of research experience on developing platforms and four years of business experience as an entrepreneur, Im particular interested in large complex challenges, like scaling agile for corporates, developing all kind of custom platforms, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MixelKiemen/videos
https://www.facebook.com/mixel.kiemen
https://www.facebook.com/Mixel.de.kamergeleerde/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mixelkiemen/
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2015055187_Mixel_Kiemen
https://www.drupal.org/u/mixel
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help people, and humans as a whole, to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
https://www.facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
https://www.youtube.com/user/newculture
https://lifeishnowish.blogspot.com/
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