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Human Energy

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

Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.

We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.

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S6 · E2
August 13 · 50 min
Alex Pentland with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland is a Stanford Human-Centered AI Fellow, MIT Toshiba Professor, and one of the world’s most influential computer scientists. His work has helped pioneer computational social science, collective intelligence, and data-driven approaches to understanding how people cooperate, communicate, and make decisions. As artificial intelligence becomes woven into every aspect of society, Pentland argues that its greatest potential is not replacing human intelligence, but strengthening it. David Sloan Wilson and Sandy Pentland explore how AI can help communities solve problems collectively, preserve human agency, and build more democratic and cooperative institutions. Along the way, they discuss cultural evolution, collective intelligence, governance, cities, data cooperatives, and why the future of AI depends less on creating smarter machines than on helping people become wiser together. --- This episode is from the podcast, Evolving Alignment. Evolving Alignment explores one of the central questions of our time: How can humanity and artificial intelligence coevolve in ways that enhance cooperation, creativity, and human flourishing? Hosted by evolutionary scientist David Sloan Wilson, each episode features leading thinkers from fields including evolutionary biology, cultural evolution, artificial intelligence, economics, psychology, philosophy, complexity science, and the social sciences. Rather than focusing on the narrow technical challenge of aligning AI systems with human interests, these conversations examine the broader evolutionary processes that have enabled living systems to solve problems of cooperation at ever higher levels of complexity, producing increasingly sophisticated forms of biological and cultural organization. Can we learn from the deep history of evolution to shape a future in which humans and AI cooperate rather than compete, and develop new forms of collective intelligence we can only begin to imagine today? Evolving Alignment brings together many of the world’s leading researchers to explore these questions—and to consider how the choices we make today may influence the future evolution of intelligence itself. Evolving Alignment is presented by Human Energy, a catalytic hub for evolving collective consciousness. ‍Learn more about Human Energy here, https://www.humanenergy.io/about
S6 · E1
August 12 · 40 min
Iyad Rahwan with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast
Iyad Rahwan is the Director of the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He is a pioneer in the emerging fields of machine behavior and machine culture, in which AI systems are studied through the same scientific evolutionary lens long used to understand the behavior of living systems. As AI systems become increasingly autonomous and begin interacting with one another as well as with people, understanding their behavior may become as important as understanding the technology itself. David Sloan Wilson and Iyad Rahwan explore what it means to study AI as a new kind of evolving actor, and what that perspective can teach us about building more cooperative relationships between humans and intelligent machines. --- This episode is from the podcast, Evolving Alignment. Evolving Alignment explores one of the central questions of our time: How can humanity and artificial intelligence coevolve in ways that enhance cooperation, creativity, and human flourishing? Hosted by evolutionary scientist David Sloan Wilson, each episode features leading thinkers from fields including evolutionary biology, cultural evolution, artificial intelligence, economics, psychology, philosophy, complexity science, and the social sciences. Rather than focusing on the narrow technical challenge of aligning AI systems with human interests, these conversations examine the broader evolutionary processes that have enabled living systems to solve problems of cooperation at ever higher levels of complexity, producing increasingly sophisticated forms of biological and cultural organization. Can we learn from the deep history of evolution to shape a future in which humans and AI cooperate rather than compete, and develop new forms of collective intelligence we can only begin to imagine today? Evolving Alignment brings together many of the world’s leading researchers to explore these questions—and to consider how the choices we make today may influence the future evolution of intelligence itself. Evolving Alignment is presented by Human Energy, a catalytic hub for evolving collective consciousness. ‍Learn more about Human Energy here, https://www.humanenergy.io/about
S5 · E2
January 17 · 1 hr 46 min
Alignment for a Major Evolutionary Transition: The Future of Humanity & AI - Global Salon Series - Shack15 at the Ferry Building, San Fransisco, CA
The San Francisco Salon gathered leading thinkers to explore a central question of our era: How do we align humanity, technology, and the planet as we enter a major evolutionary transition? ‍ This salon convenes leading voices in evolutionary science, the future of tech, and human potential to explore how humanity and AI might co-evolve toward unprecedented global cooperation. Together, we’ll examine the frontiers of human and machine intelligence, the pathways toward alignment at both biological and societal levels, and the role of leadership, ethics, and cooperation in shaping our collective future. Hosted by Human Energy, the evening wove together evolutionary science, cooperation theory, cognition, and AI through perspectives from Terry Deacon (UC Berkeley), Athena Aktipis (Cooperative Futures Institute), Peter Fenton (Benchmark Capital), and Nichol Bradford (Human + Tech Week). ‍ Through conversation and community, this salon will surface insights into how humanity can navigate unprecedented technological change while deepening connection, resilience, and purpose. Held at SHACK15 at the Ferry Building on November 11th, 2025. This salon is part of the Human Energy Global Salon Series. An intimate and by invitation only experience. This event is made possible through catalytic sponsorship by Benchmark. **Learn more about Human Energy** Support us in making more videos: https://www.humanenergy.io/donate Website: https://www.humanenergy.io/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humanenergyio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/75621555/admin/dashboard/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumanEnergyIO
S4 · E24
Aug 18, 2025 · 32 min
Cosmic Consciousness Exploring the Noosphere's Role in Astrophysics and Astrobiology | Youssef Moulane | N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Youssef Moulane Presentation: Cosmic Consciousness: Exploring the Noosphere's Role in Astrophysics and Astrobiology The concept of the noosphere, introduced by Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, refers to the collective sphere of human thought and consciousness emerging from the biosphere. In this talk, I will explore the intersections between the noosphere and astrophysics, considering human consciousness as a factor in the universe's evolutionary framework. By linking the noosphere to astrophysical concepts, we examine its potential influence on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence through techno-signatures and the implications of humanity’s growing cosmic impact, such as space exploration and astro-engineering. The noosphere invites a philosophical interpretation of the data provided by astrophysics, encouraging a dialogue on humanity's responsibility as an intelligent force within the cosmos. Furthermore, the concept can be applied to astrobiology, exploring the evolution of consciousness and intelligence beyond Earth. Integrating the noosphere with astrophysics thus provides a holistic perspective on the development of intelligence in the universe and our potential role in cosmic evolution. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zkpb4ktHdIk
S4 · E23
Aug 11, 2025 · 24 min
Integrating Complexity and Modes of Knowledge for Inter-Globals Collaboration | Tomás Veloz | N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Tomás Veloz's Presentation: Integrating Complexity and Modes of Knowledge for Inter-Globals Collaboration In the face of exponential technological advancements and profound global challenges, the need for a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the noosphere—our collective consciousness—has never been more urgent. As a person born and raised in the Global south (Chile) and being an interdisciplinary researcher building collaborations for nearly 15 years between the Globals not only in science, but also in technology and the arts, this talk seeks to explore how we can ethically and effectively guide the evolution of the noosphere, putting special emphasis in the so-called "wicked problems" and the importance of an effective dialogue between the Globals to solve them. Wicked problems can only be represented in a multifaceted and incomplete way (inter/transdisciplinary), they have a multilevel, processual, and complex adaptive nature (non-objectual), and consciously experiencing them is transformative (enactive). These features of wicked problems make the construction of knowledge about them an endeavor that i) cannot be only circumscribed to academic and dominant circles, and ii) cannot be understood without the consideration of all parties (and levels) involved. The latter calls for a revision of the normative views (Global North/Western) about what it means to build knowledge and to perform decision making and action. In the first part of this talk I will elaborate on the above-mentioned features of wicked problems and present a proposal of a model of noospheric knowledge construction that does not conform to knowledge hierarchies validated by academia and that it is participatory by default. In the second part of this talk, I will review some experiences both as an academic and director of a non-profit living working between Chile and Belgium and bridging multiple organizations between the Global North and South. As a result of these experiences, I will propose a framework for interdisciplinary and international collaboration, emphasizing how different types of knowledge—theoretical, practical, and experiential—can converge to ethically steer the future of the noosphere. The talk will end highlighting the importance of inclusivity and the role of the Global South in shaping the future and resilience of global consciousness. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7oRgfkS4yz4
S4 · E22
Aug 4, 2025 · 13 min
Noosphere and a Politics of Humanity | Souleymane Bachir Diagne Presentation N2 2024
Souleymane Bachir Diagne’s thought-provoking presentation at N2 2024 challenges us to rethink the noosphere as more than a natural evolution of global consciousness. While building on the scientific and theological foundations of Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, Diagne highlights the critical need to address political and cultural divides—especially the inequality between the Global North and South. Drawing on the works of L.S. Senghor, Diagne presents a vision of the noosphere that celebrates cultural convergence and equity, urging us to work against structural injustices to realize its full promise. This talk bridges science, ethics, and politics to illuminate the path toward a shared humanity. The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Souleymane Bachir Diagne Presentation: Noosphere and a Politics of Humanity The emergence of the noosphere as a "thinking layer of the biosphere" presupposes an emergence of cosmopolitanism out of the tribal fragmentation of the human kind. Noosphere must be a politics of humanity. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rgNBow3Wu_A
S4 · E21
Jul 28, 2025 · 20 min
AI reframed as an organic evolutionary process fueled by human creativity | Parham Pourdavood | N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Parham Pourdavood's Presentation: AI reframed as an organic evolutionary process fueled by human creativity Debates surrounding the nature of artificial intelligence (AI) often revolve around whether AI is evolving into an independent intelligent entity with agency or if it remains a form of algorithmic mimicry, destined to remain disconnected from the organic principles that govern cognition and life. A closer examination suggests that while AI systems lack agency and the essential organic principles needed for selfhood and cognition, they operate according to a logic that mirrors a principle within organisms—namely, the dynamic compression and decompression of information. Just as compressed genetic information is utilized and decompressed by cells through novel interactions—ultimately giving rise to the development of cognition and agency at the collective scale of the organism—technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) can be viewed as compressed forms of humanity’s behavioral patterns, which, when creatively interpreted and utilized, could afford the development of identity and agency at a planetary scale. From this perspective, an ethical framework emerges in which AI serves as a tool for amplifying human perspective, imagination, collaboration, and self-reflection, while offering an organic model and precedent for a harmonious relationship between the embodied, intuitive nature of living beings and their abstract, compressed representations. This vision echoes Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the “collective memory of the human race” as an organic phenomenon, where the liberation of human creativity through automation might enable a novel evolutionary process on a planetary scale. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XtitqrYcvW4
S4 · E20
Jul 21, 2025 · 17 min
Beyond Individualism: The Organic Dynamics of Digital Sociability and the Guild Model | Olivier Servais | N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Olivier Servais's Presentation: Beyond Individualism: The Organic Dynamics of Digital Sociability and the Guild Model This talk explores the tension between digital technology’s role in fostering individualism and its potential to enable new forms of collective life. While phenomena such as hikikomori and rising social anxieties support fears of digital isolation, emerging studies on online and hybrid communities challenge this perspective. Drawing on the concept of “guilds,” historically rooted in mutual aid and collaboration, the talk examines their digital resurgence as models for organizing collective life across online and offline domains. Additionally, it considers the rise of hybrid communities involving humans, bots, and AI, which reconfigure traditional notions of sociability. The discussion posits a shift from "digital natives" to "digital autochthons," inhabitants of a new digital-human ecology, offering insights into the evolution of collective identity and social organization in the 21st century. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Iu5Y_G4nrqg
S5 · E1
Jul 18, 2025 · 54 min
Human Energy for Work & Life: Cultivating Agency, Connection, and Purpose in the Age of AI - Global Salon Series - Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Join us for an immersive evening of dialogue, connection, and insight at Human Energy's New York City Salon, recorded live at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus on June 12, 2025. This salon is part of the Human Energy Global Salon Series. ‍ This salon, title Human Energy for Work & Life: Cultivating Agency, Connection, and Purposes in the Age of AI brings together leading thinkers in science, business, psychology, and AI. Together, we'll consider how human energy—our capacity for resilience, adaptability, and connection—can be cultivated in the face of today’s complex personal and planetary challenges. Through conversation and community, we’ll explore the science of human connection, prosocial AI, the role of leadership in complexity, and the emerging paradigms reshaping how we live and work. HOST: Sheila Hassell Hughes CEO, HUMAN ENERGY Professor and Former Dean of Liberal Arts, Saint Mary’s College of California FEATURED SPEAKERS: Cornelia C. Walther Director, POZE, a global alliance for systemic change that benefits people and planet Wharton AI & Analytics Visiting Scholar Raj Sisodia FEMSA Distinguished University Professor and Chairman, Conscious Enterprise Center, Tecnológico de Monterrey James A. Coan Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Virginia David S. Wilson Human Energy Advisory Board Member SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University Learn more: https://www.humanenergy.io/events/fordham-salon
S4 · E19
Jul 14, 2025 · 19 min
The Human Mind: An Homage (or Love Letter) | Natasha Vita More Presentation N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Natasha Vita More Presentation: The Human Mind: An Homage (or Love Letter) This talk traces the remarkable journey of our species' most distinctive asset: our capacity for complex thought and self-awareness. The human mind has evolved as an instrument of possibility through courage, creativity, reasoning, and optimism—the traits that form cornerstones of our species' success. These traits have empowered humans to transcend biological limitations, overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges, and actively shape our individual and collective destiny. From the first stone tools to modern artificial intelligence, from cave paintings to quantum physics, we see how the human mind's capacity for innovation and abstract thought has consistently propelled us toward a noösphere. Yet, as AI becomes increasingly intertwined with cognitive processes, can we distinguish between our innate human mind and AI-influenced thinking? And more crucially, could AI erode what makes our minds uniquely human or significantly evolve our minds beyond what we can conceptualize today? N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RFHzLW2isA8
S4 · E18
Jul 7, 2025 · 14 min
"Raison d’État" and collective conscience: borders from the perspective of the noosphere | N2 2024
In this compelling presentation, Montassir Sakhi revisits Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the noosphere through the lens of the Global South. He explores the tensions between universalism, colonial legacies, and contemporary inequalities, emphasizing the urgent need to address borderization and systemic division. By integrating critical perspectives, Sakhi challenges us to envision a truly unified human spirit grounded in justice and inclusion. The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Montassir Sakhi's presentation: "Raison d’État" and the collective conscience: thinking about borders from the perspective of the noosphere How can the theories and concepts developed in the noosphere paradigm help us to rethink the tragedy that is currently taking place around the closing of the borders of the global North? More precisely, how can global concepts that are based on the idea of humanist and universalist reason help us today to question border policies that are based on repressive measures? This talk analyses how concepts such as "the new man" (Fanon, 1961), "oceanic feeling" (Freud, 1930) and “collective consciousness” (de Chardin, 1955) are challenged by the new "Raison d'État" (Foucault, 1978) that has emerged since the birth of modernity. The aim is to see how this Raison is reinvented in post-colonial times through the phenomenon of the border and its central mechanisms (visas, detention centres, expulsions, etc.). In the work of the three thinkers mentioned above, and in an approach that could be called "revolutionary noosphere", the aim is then to rediscover an awareness of and an overcoming of public policies that are both national and imperial, based on the practice of borderisation. This talk will provide an opportunity to draw on ethnographic research currently being carried out in Morocco with families and groups at risk of disappearance in Europe's borderlands, mainly the Mediteranean Sea. Their experiences will be used to describe both the repression of Europe's borders and the solidarity forged in collective struggles. This talk will show how these solidarities today constitute spaces that can be compared to the "collective consciousness" to which the noosphere invites us. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kQVo-1YGKnY
S4 · E17
Jun 30, 2025 · 23 min
The Business of the Noosphere | Michael Pirson Presentation N2 2024
Michael Pirson Presentation: The Business of the Noosphere What if the business of business wasn’t business but the Noosphere? What does that even mean? Business has been a driving force of the economy, politics, and society for better or worse. In this session we explore the paradigmatic foundations of business and organizations at large to become a lever of Noospheric progress. We also highlight the possibility and potential of leadership of business and organizations to create a world that works for everyone. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5p6sZ_TNvcs
S4 · E16
Jun 23, 2025 · 19 min
What is human energy? An investigation into life, experience and evolution | Michael Jacob | N2 2024
Discover how human energy, creativity, and the Noosphere are interconnected in Michael Jacob's compelling N2 2024 presentation. Drawing on the visionary work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jacob explores the concept of "meta-aliveness" and how our individual and collective energy drives conscious evolution. From the hidden creativity of cells and brains to the transformative power of imagination, this talk bridges science, poetry, and mystery to illuminate humanity's role in shaping the future. Watch to learn how embracing the unknown can unlock the noosphere's full potential. The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Michael Jacob's presentation: What is human energy? An investigation into life, experience and evolution Human energy is the vital link between our personal, individual lives and the living, evolutionary potential of the noosphere. This presentation will move beyond abstract conceptualizations of human energy that describe it as a physical, biological, and moral force, to incorporate experiential knowledge in the service of conscious evolution. Conscious evolution is how the noosphere enables evolvability: the capacity to increase the probability of an evolutionary outcome. As a fuel for evolvability, human energy reflects a natural extension of biological processes that utilize surplus metabolic energy for adaptive evolution. This latent energy leverages serendipitous interactions within biochemical, neural, and social networks to constellate innovative pathways. As a result of this creative energy, organisms are more than literally “alive” (surviving) but are “meta-alive,” (flourishing and evolvable). This presentation explores the radical hypothesis of human energy: when we feel metaphorically alive, the noosphere is biologically alive. Nonetheless, biological descriptions are insufficient to capture the felt experience of human energy. Making meaning of this experience, which often takes the form of a vital calling in one’s life, requires biology and poetry. What emerges from this creative process cannot be predicted, but is nourished through the energy of the arts, music, and literature (the humanities). I propose that through our human energy, we are creatively called to participate in the noosphere and awaken it to life. This work and its scholarly support requires us to build a transdisciplinary bridge between the biological sciences and the humanities. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hoFR86Tzemo
S4 · E15
Jun 16, 2025 · 23 min
Awe and Wonder: Gateways to Planetary Consciousness | Marouane Jaouat Presentation N2 24
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Marouane Jaouat's Presentation: Awe and Wonder: Gateways to Planetary Consciousness In an age of accelerating connectivity, the transformative power of awe and wonder emerges as a crucial catalyst for the Noosphere's development. These peak experiences - moments that dissolve our ordinary sense of self and connect us to something larger - are essential drivers in the evolution of collective consciousness. As humanity faces unprecedented global challenges, these states of expanded awareness serve not just as individual transformation tools, but as amplifiers of collective intelligence. Cultivating such experiences becomes vital for bridging polarized narratives and co-creating a new "Third Story" - one that could foster the emergence of planetary consciousness necessary for our collective survival and flourishing. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V-3JzGjJPCs
S4 · E14
Jun 9, 2025 · 21 min
Fear and loathing in the network: the paradox of social media & collective well-being | Johan Bollen | N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Johan Bollen Presentations Fear and loathing in the network: the paradox of social media and collective well-being Modern life is marked by a strange paradox: we are now more socially connected than ever which is an important condition for human thriving, yet the prevalence of mental health disorders has increased sharply. Mental health disorders are now one of the world’s leading causes of disability. This is particularly the case for our youth. Suicide rates for young adults are now considered very high, a source of great concern. How can the most socially connected generation since the dawn of humanity also be its most anxious and depressed? In my talk I will revisit some of the evidence pointing towards the involvement of social media in this paradox. While social media platforms provide an unprecedented opportunity to establish meaningful social connections across geographical and socio-cultural boundaries, they are marked by several characteristics which may drive the present rise in mental health disorders. Since young adults are online practically continuously, they may be most exposed to these effects. I will discuss how network effects such as assortativity and the friendship paradox may conspire against our mental health. In addition, I will look at the interaction between cognitive distortions and the psycho-linguistic effects of online social networks. Evidence is pointing towards online social networks serving as vectors for the diffusion and propagation of a mode of thinking and communicating that is quite common among individuals with internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety. We have analyzed large-scale text databases and shown marked increases of markers of cognitive distortions in books and other content. Finally, I will highlight some fascinating relations between cognitive distortions and societal polarization which may be fueling political and societal dysfunction in the West. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/
S4 · E13
Jun 2, 2025 · 25 min
Noosphere, Technosphere, Biosphere: What Futures? | Isabelle Delannoy Presentation N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Isabelle Delannoy's Presentation: Noosphere, Technosphere, Biosphere: What Futures? In 1926, when Vladimir Vernadsky introduced the concepts of the geosphere, biosphere, technosphere, and noosphere, he viewed them as the five successive levels of evolution on Earth, each one creating the next and, in turn, being modified by it: the physical sphere generates the living sphere, which in turn, through humans, generates the technosphere, which in turn generates a sphere of global thought, and each of these manifestations produces its effects on the previous ones. Through this conceptualization, he presented the first systemic vision of how the Earth functions. Today, as the biosphere undergoes the greatest extinction crisis in its history, and as the majority of human populations who are its victims are not responsible for it, Vernadsky’s concepts provide a powerful framework for thinking about and understanding our contemporary problems. What thoughts and technologies are in conflict with the biosphere to the point of destroying it? What is their history, where do they originate, where are they received, and at what level do they spread? How do they evolve? We argue that two scenarios are currently possible and emerging: one is the development of a way of thinking and techniques in harmony with the biosphere, and the other is a scenario where the technosphere and noosphere persist without the persistence of the biosphere. Isabelle Delannoy is the CEO and co-founder of L’Entreprise Symbiotique, a professor affiliated with CNAM, and the author of L’économie symbiotique, régénérer la planète, l’économie et la société, Actes Sud, 2017. This talk will be presented in French. Original French Translation: Noosphère, Technosphère, Biosphère : quels futurs ? Quand en 1926, Vladimir Vernadsky émet les concepts de géosphère, biosphère, technosphère et noosphère, il les envisage comme les cinq niveaux d’évolution successifs de la Terre, chacune créant la suivante et étant en retour modifiée par elle : la sphère physique engendre la sphère vivante qui elle-même via l’humain engendre la technique qui elle-même engendre une sphère de pensée globale et chacune de ces manifestations produit ses effets sur les précédentes. Par cette conceptualisation, il énonce la première vision systémique du fonctionnement de la Terre. Aujourd’hui, alors que la biosphère vit la plus grande crise d’extinction que nous connaissions de son histoire, et que la majorité des populations humaines qui en sont les victimes n’en sont pas les responsables, les concepts de Vernadsky fournissent un cadre puissant pour penser et comprendre nos problèmes contemporains. Quelle pensée et quelles techniques entrent en conflit avec la biosphère au point de la détruire ? Quelle est leur histoire, d’où sont-elles émises, où sont-elles reçues et à quel niveau diffusent-elles ? Comment évoluent-elles ? Nous défendrons que deux scénarios sont aujourd’hui possibles et en émergence : celui du développement d’une pensée et de techniques en accord avec la biosphère et celui d’une Terre où technosphère et noosphère persistent sans la persistance de la biosphère. Isabelle Delannoy est dirigeante et cofondatrice de L’Entreprise Symbiotique, professeure affiliée au CNAM et autrice de L’économie symbiotique, régénérer la planète, l’économie et la société, Actes Sud 2017. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/
S4 · E12
May 26, 2025 · 21 min
Teilhard’s Noosphere: Why Evolution and Religion Belong Together | Ilia Delio Presentation N2 2024
In this insightful talk, theologian and Teilhardian scholar Ilia Delio explores the profound connections between science, religion, and the noosphere. Drawing on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's groundbreaking ideas, she discusses the intrinsic relationship between matter, consciousness, and the spiritual energy driving evolution. Delio emphasizes the need for a holistic understanding of science and religion as complementary forces shaping the future of humanity and the planet. Her thought-provoking perspective invites us to consider a new, unified vision of knowing and being in the emerging noosphere. The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Ilia Delio's Presentation: Teilhard’s Noosphere: Why Evolution and Religion Belong Together The Noosphere is our present reality of complexified matter and global consciousness. Scientists mapping the Noosphere show grids of interconnections that reveal a formative pattern of a higher-ordered collective. Teilhard de Chardin envisioned this pattern almost a century ago, but he saw that emerging complexified wholeness cannot be adequately sustained without religion. He did not conceive religion as a confessional set of doctrines but the depth dimension of all reality, the search for ultimate meaning, and the state of being grasped by ultimate concerns. “Religion and evolution,” he said, “are destined to form one single continuous organism, in which their respective lives prolong, are dependent on, and complete one another.” Religion is the biological response to the emergence of spiritual energy. His sense of religion, therefore, is experiential and supports faith in the future. The true function of religion is to sustain and spur on the progress of life. In his view, no one religion can satisfy the religious spirit of the earth and its evolution towards Omega. If religion is a biological phenomenon, what is religion on the level of emerging Noosphere? Science has significantly advanced the Noosphere but without a rebirth of religion, the future is fragile. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eXvhtRwF294
S4 · E11
May 19, 2025 · 21 min
Swimming in the Noosphere | Gregory Stock & Sadie Stock Presentation N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Gregory Stock & Sadie Stock Presentation Swimming in the Noosphere The nature of human existence is shifting abruptly. Our recognition of digital natives, which was so widely touted in the early 2000’s, has turned out to be but prelude to the growing realization that we are now wading into an unfathomable noospheric pool of AI-centered information flows. Not only are we entering a Post Truth World in which it will be increasingly difficult if not impossible to independently establish verifiable truth, but the supposed gulf between digital immigrants who were adults when digital technologies exploded, and digital natives who’ve never known anything else is seeming ever less significant. It is nothing compared to the chasm between digital natives and Generation AI — those growing up in an AI-infused noosphere permeated by invisible technology, AI , and soon enough AGI (artificial general intelligence) and ASI (artificial superinteligence). N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FKIItB8-y5c
S4 · E10
May 12, 2025 · 33 min
Business & Leadership in the Noosphere: Dee Frewert, Amine Belemlih, Giuseppe Orlando, Nawal Chraibi | N2 2024
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Business & Leadership in the Noosphere Topics: Change Management in the Noosphere, Business Models and Leadership, Panelists: Dee Frewert, Amine Belemlih, Giuseppe Orlando, Nawal Chraibi Moderator: Michael Pirson N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t2tA5A0o_Ww
S4 · E9
May 5, 2025 · 24 min
Wonder and Awe in the Noosphere | Francis Heylighen Presentation N2 24
The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change. Francis Heylighen Presentation: Wonder and Awe in the Noosphere The noosphere is a level of thinking transcending individuals and their local, self-centered perspective. The emotions of awe and wonder about the vastness of the universe can open their minds towards such a broader, transcendent consciousness. N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐 The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution. N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future. We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere. Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tQIcr8kGgPw

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