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29 Apr 09
Patrick SavalleMany folks responded to my inquiry about evidence of a global super-organism. Among the most detailed and well-considered was Nova Spivack's long essay posted on Twine. Twine is a crowd-sourced aggregator of knowledge, superficially like the shared bookma
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Felipe LavínMany folks responded to my inquiry about evidence of a global super-organism. Among the most detailed and well-considered was Nova Spivack's long essay posted on Twine. Twine is a crowd-sourced aggregator of knowledge, superficially like the shared bookma
evolution culture science psychology philosophy social emergence from-delicious
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20 Nov 08
eyal matsliahcollective intelligence
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What Nova Spivack suggests here is that the path from random population to meta-individual is a path of increasing structure. The parts are more tightly bound in relationships, and as they gain in interdependence, the whole advances to the next phase.
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Smith and Szathmary say that evolution is the continued, graduated progression in which smaller units form larger, higher level units, and then those new meta-individuals start to form a new group, where each meta-individual is a mere individual
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Robert Wright, writing in "Nonzero" argues that the evolution of humanity is one long progression of increasing cooperation, starting from the first cell of life, where both "sides" win.
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For the ninth transition in life's evolution -- the transition to a planetary level organization of humans and machines -- we should expect to see:
1. Increased cooperation among humans, benefiting both humans and the OM.
2. Increased span of interdependence. Planetary scale, things happening and enduring longer or quicker than before.
3. Increase complexity of informational flow. New ways of connecting, organizing, relating not possible before.
4. Emergence of a new level of control. An innovation (like DNA, or spinal cord, government) that takes control of functions in order to benefit constituents non-zero-ly.
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05 Nov 08
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In other words, Smith and Szathmary say that evolution is the continued, graduated progression in which smaller units form larger, higher level units, and then those new meta-individuals start to form a new group, where each meta-individual is a mere individual.
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He suggests we can see where evolution is going by imagining a next phase which will increases the span of cooperation further.
That of course, would be the ninth transition,
From human society to a global super-organism containing both humans and their machines.
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ken .Twine - organising information and people - Spivak's essay on crowds, groups, and meta-individuals - and Smith and Szathmary's "The Major Transitions in Evolution" - replicating individuals to bounded populations and societies - emergence and inter-depend
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04 Nov 08
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