collective consciousness in the age of networks
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Presents how recent research in networks and social interaction, more than changing neuroscience, sheds new light on socioeconomic and cultural changes in our society.TRANSCRIPT
Collective Consciousness in the Age of NetworksGuillaume Dumas
Part 1Brain
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The Turing Machine
Image: The Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. (1992)
Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela
Wait!Is the brain
really like a
computer?
Autonomy
Coupling
Environment
Autopoïesis
Autopoïesis
Autopoïesis
Multicellular
The Brainweb
Image: F. Varela, J-P. Lachaux, E. Rodriguez & J. Martinerie (2001)
Cognitive autonomy
Social interaction
Image: G. Dumas, J. Nadel, R. Soussignan, J. Martinerie & L. Garnero
(2010)
Image: G. Dumas, M. Chavez, & J.Nadel Martinerie (2012)
Brain network (2005)Olivier Goulet
Facebook's Project PalantirCredit: Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford
The Global Village
“Collective or
creative consciousness”
The Division of Labour in Society (1893)
Part 2Society
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The Network of Global Corporate ControlS. Vitali, J.B. Glattfelder & S. Battiston (2011)
2008 Financial Crisis
An epileptic focus?
The Network of Global Corporate ControlS. Vitali, J.B. Glattfelder & S. Battiston (2011)
What is the main problem here?
Community ~ Mobility
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Regular SmallWorld
Random
Control ~ Resilience
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MeshTree Rhizome
Control ~ Resilience
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MeshTree Rhizome
Control ~ Resilience
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MeshTree Rhizome
The illusion of choice (I.Imgur.com)
The illusion of choice (frugaldad.com)
Big Cloudis watching you!
Part 3The Power
of Connectivit
y
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Knowledge
Creativity
Software
…
ScienceOpen Science
“This is the first time a constitutionis being drafted basically on the
Internet”Thorvaldur Gylfason, Member of Iceland's Constitutional
Council
It is all aboutconnecting
people & ideas!
