Internet as Global Brain Web Mind
<p class="default">Oct 23, 2012 04:57 PM  
 
07:28 PM, July 15, 2007  (date when this node was created);
 
also check out BIG MIND on google... includes hits by 
Ken Wilbur and Genpo Roshi  on  small mind/ big mind.
 
Oct 23, 2012 06:58 PM
 
Global Brain metaphor for the worldwide intelligent network formed by all individuals on this plant
with the internet, telephone etc.
 
It emerges from the dynamic networks of interactions btwn its components.
 
WWW resembles the brain... eg Facebook.
 
coined by Peter Russell in his 1982 book.
 
Francis Heylighen:  4 concepts:  organicism, encyclopedism, emergentism and evolutionary cybernetics.
used as the basis for organization of this article.
;  Greg Stock' 
 
ORGANICISM:  Herbert Spencer  saw society as a social organism and reflected on its need for
a nervous system.   Willima Wheeler: ant colony...
 
Teilhard... emergence of noosphere  or global mind
 
 
 
 
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