This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

The planetary mind is on the verge of creating new human forms. Hereditary traditions that have, over many millennia, given birth to hundreds of diverse human forms, are now entering the process of creative dialogue with one another.

It is in the synergies generated by deepening relations among all human communities that new and vibrant contexts are put into place. Over time the creative relationships in these new contexts will bring forth a million new human forms.

You may already be one of them.

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Presented by Human Energy:
https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:
1. Heredity
The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools
Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness
Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication
A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through
a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population
A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade
To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization
The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence
To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:
• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)
• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)
• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)
• Modern (1,400 CE - present)
• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (
https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/
).

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmic story introducing the Noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

With so many real problems besetting our Earth community, any talk of an
emerging planetary mind can seem naive. Already in the first half of the 21st century, pessimism has captured a great many.

To avoid the temptation of depression and despair, we need to take in the larger arc of history. In the modern era, trading networks exploded and changed the fabric of human life.

A keen appreciation of what trade has bequeathed to us will strengthen our faith in progress.

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Presented by Human Energy:
https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:
1. Heredity
The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools
Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness
Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication
A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through
a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population
A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade
To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization
The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence
To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:
• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)
• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)
• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)
• Modern (1,400 CE - present)
• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (
https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/
).

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmic story introducing the Noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

Interested in participating in the central creative energy of our solar system?

You can through intentional engagement with the emergence of the noosphere.

In this episode, we explore how modern communication networks offer a powerful avenue to Earth’s mind.

Our electronic communication systems are on the verge of becoming a central nervous system for the Earth community. Tools and technology are readily available for global conversation. The essential next step is a planet-wide dialogue on what constitutes true human happiness. The quest to address human happiness can and will unite our species.

You can begin the process now. If you are interested in participating in the central creative energy of our solar system, ask yourself this crucial question: What activities bring me a deep sense of fulfillment?

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Thanks for tuning in! 🌐

Presented by Human Energy:
https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:
1. Heredity
The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools
Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness
Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication
A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through
a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population
A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade
To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization
The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence
To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:
• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)
• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)
• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)
• Modern (1,400 CE - present)
• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (
https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/
).

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This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

The greatest discovery in all of modern science came in the 20th Century. We now know we live not in a fixed cosmos, but in a cosmogenesis -- a universe in the midst of its development.

This discovery leads to a profound transformation of human
consciousness. We move from our former conviction that the universe is static and unchanging to the amazing realization that we -- as humanity, and as universe -- are developing into something new.

This emerging form of consciousness, called time-developmental consciousness, is regarded by some scholars as the most significant transformation of consciousness in 2 million years of human existence.

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Thanks for tuning in! 🌐

Presented by Human Energy:
https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:

1. Heredity

The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools

Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness

Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication

A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population

A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade

To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization

The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence

To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:

• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)

• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)

• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)

• Modern (1,400 CE - present)

• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (
https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/
).

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmic story introducing the Noosphere as a source of meaning

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

A hundred thousand year experiment, carried out by the Earth Community, makes clear that major stages of humanity's development were set from our origin.

The experiment took place when Homo sapiens began to flow north out of Africa. Some veered to the west and populated Europe. Others turned right and crossed over into the Americas.

The key point is that for a hundred thousand years, the humans heading for Europe had utterly no contact with the humans trekking toward the Americas. And yet when they met, a hundred thousand years later, in the sixteenth century, they found that they had evolved through profoundly similar stages.

This suggests that humanity’s evolution has a cosmic significance, one we are only now beginning to understand.

Thanks for tuning in! 🌐

Presented by Human Energy:
https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme
https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy http://humanenergy.io/

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmic story introducing the Noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

The universe created stars. galaxies, and life, and that same creative energy is at work in humans. In this film we investigate how early modern humans discovered a way to enhance the creativity flowing through them.

Through the invention of readily accessible paper, modern humans were able to capture novel creative potencies, fixing new ideas to paper before they vanished. Henceforth, humans could complexify their thinking because they could build former thoughts into current thoughts.

This gave birth to an upwelling of art and music, to new designs for government and architecture, to new visions of what it meant to be a human.

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Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:

1. Heredity

The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools

Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness

Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication

A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population

A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade

To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization

The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence

To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:

• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)

• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)

• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)

• Modern (1,400 CE - present)

• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/).

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmic story introducing the Noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

The special nature of human consciousness is bringing forth a planet that is ever more mind-like. We call this the process of cerebralization.

Is this work coming from the universe?

Or are we on our own here?

Are we just a meaningless speck in the midst of a trillion galaxies?

Or are we here to construct a planetary mind?

Similar questions have haunted humans from the beginning. In this video, we discuss one of the most fascinating speculations concerning this question that comes from the world of science. Fair warning, this idea will ask you to stretch your mind. But it provides a radical new understanding of our existence as humans, one we think you'll enjoy considering.

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Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:

1. Heredity

The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools

Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness

Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication

A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population

A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade

To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization

The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence

To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:

• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)

• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)

• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)

• Modern (1,400 CE - present)

• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/).

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmi

This episode is from our YouTube series Story of the Noosphere.

Money was invented during the classical era of humanity and inaugurated a new era of human evolution. Money was such a powerful new invention we are only now beginning to understand its deeper meaning.

In today's episode, we look at the way in which trade networks, during the classical period of humanity, participated in the building of the noosphere.

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Thanks for tuning in! 🌐

Presented by Human Energy: https://HumanEnergy.io

As a word, "noosphere" is a loose synonym for three different meanings: the history and destiny of Homo sapiens; an emerging planetary nervous system, an emerging superorganism.

Throughout this series, we explore the conditions that gave rise to the noosphere:

1. Heredity

The transfer of genetic and cultural information from parents to offspring, generation to generation.

2. Tools

Instruments and technological devices that aids in accomplishing tasks.

3. Self-Consciousness

Conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual.

4. Communication

A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

5. Population

A body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common, the total of particles at a particular energy level.

6. Trade

To exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

7. Cerebralization

The developing capacity of a species to form an idea, mental image or understanding something.

8. Convergence

To come together and unite in a common interest or focus.

Across five different stages of humanity:

• Paleolithic (300,000 - 11,000 years ago)

• Neolithic (11,000 years ago - 3,000 BCE)

• Classical (3,000 BCE - 1400 CE)

• Modern (1,400 CE - present)

• Future

This series of short films explores the ways humanity is building the nervous system of a superorganism, called the noosphere. Our series is narrated and hosted by Brian Thomas Swimme (https://storyoftheuniverse.org/) and produced by Human Energy (http://humanenergy.io/).

Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific and cosmic story introducing the Noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.

The project addresses the challenges of unprecedented technological and social change which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation.