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Global Brain
- The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
- Letto da: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durata: 10 ore e 51 min
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In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom - one of today's preeminent thinkers - offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a "complex adaptive system," a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. And he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical.
Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research-and-development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, flocks of flying lizards, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic Era, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.
Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution; it is a "grand vision," says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.
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Generale2 out of 5 stars
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- Leonidas Karr
- 13/10/2020
A stinker.
The Lucifer Principle was thought provoking but this one was relatively shallow and not well researched. He finally lost me when he suggested that Northern Europeans developed a tolerance for milk because they needed the vitamin D. (Milk did not contain vitamin D until it was artificially added in the 20th century.) Pass on this one.
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- Faramir
- 06/12/2021
Interesting but uneducated opinion- not a reliable summary of the science
I was intrigued by the title and enjoy new ideas. The author is obviously self educated which has lead to some interesting ideas but many of them are based on a misinterpretation of the primary literature he references. He sounds like a really intelligent guy, it’s unfortunate he didn’t discuss these ideas about evolutionary biology with someone who understands the science of it. This is why peer review is important. He talks a good game which isn’t surprising when you realize the authors expertise is creating publicity. Unless you are already an expert in evolutionary biology you won’t necessarily see the errors in his analysis. He should have gotten an evolutionary biologist to edit this. My first red flag when he bragged about creating the rock and roll era and having discussions with Einstein. Sounds impressive- bug Einstein was a physicist, not a current expert in evolutionary theory or neural networks-so that was a flashy but irrelevant piece of information. Then he repeatedly uses a biblical reference to bolster his ideas( which is weird in a scientific discussion) even though he says he’s an atheist. And the passage he references is also being misinterpreted in order to support his idea. It made me question the veracity of all of his conclusions.
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Generale2 out of 5 stars
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- Adel Ziani
- 08/12/2022
A convoluted road to nowhere
The first three quarters of the book, are a summary of old school evolutionary social sciences. It takes ages to get to the predictable point, the writer appropriates “the scientific truth”.
The book then takes a brutal right turn, into 1700s colonial territory, In which the heroic western white man, armed with his “science”, “logic” and “innate noble purpose”, battles irrational savages.
In the final chapters, the writer pulls no punches. The xenophobia, Islamophobia, and supremacist intolerance, are let loose in a hysterical rant.
This book is the inarticulate spasms of a dying world view.
“Global brain” is a pathetic attempt to revive “the end of history and the last man”. Decades of bloodshed have not satisfied the thinly veiled hatred to anything different.
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- Carlos Motta
- 16/04/2021
Pass on this one
do not waste your time. shallow, boring. only a timeline of human evolution without further analysis or interesting topics or facts. pass this one.
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- LUIS TOMAS NICOLAS GARCIA GALVAN
- 12/12/2022
Ya en el primer capitulo muestra desconocimiento
Compara conductas de insectos con mamiferos especificamente del efecto del sistema amigdalino y llama a la respuesta de lucha huida sindrome
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Generale4 out of 5 stars
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- Lucio Vazquez
- 26/09/2022
Exhausting and Exhaustively Elaborate
I forced myself to listen to this entire audiobook, aided in the endeavor by an impromptu roadtrip. This is a mentally exhausting listen as you're assailed by endless chapters droning on to increasingly infinitesimal, facsimile points. The treasure of knowledge gained by enduring the repertoire of monotonous buildup becomes increasingly less rewarding as the size of the chapters mercilessly increases. Somewhere in the middle of the book, the author abandons his grasp on the narrative of cordial, linearly specific subject matter and starts delving into borderline nonsense, as if he himself somehow losses grasp on the very reality he is narrating, and just went for the high-score word count. This is proven by getting a print copy of this book, hitting CTRL - F, and typing in "Prostitute." My impression is that this book could have been half the length and kept 80% of the knowledge intact. Is the last 20% of the knowledge worth double the time investment? Only you, as the individual listener, may be able to answer this question. That hurdle aside, the knowledge gleamed from this book is substantial in the pursuit of knowledge related to social structures and why we make the decisions we do, and how much of our decision making is influenced by the social groups we identify ourselves with. Combining an understanding of microbiology, chemistry, and anthropology, the author attempts to build up a massive pyramid of understanding of how our modern-day behavior is likened to the earliest microbial life-forms, and our decisions and actions in social structures traces its roots back to the basic actions of group transmission of messages to communicate threats and adapt to survive. 3/5ths of the book spirals back and forth creating a complex theory involving Microbes, Monkeys, and the Romans. From the tendency for microbes to cluster and bifurcate in the need to be in the company of its peers, to the scavenging and herd effects of monkey, chimpanzee, baboon, and earlier Native Americans, to finally the complexities of the ultra-rigid lifestyle of the Spartan soldier and the more free-thinking, ultra-liberal lifestyle of the Pythagoreans. If you manage to go this far in the book, I think you will have gleamed most of the useful information. The author himself mentally checks out as well at this part, hence the liberal presence of the word "Prostitute." that appears. Continued participation in the audio book is just partaking and sharing in the experience of the hazing ritual that the author must have subjected themselves to in the process of creating this book. If you decide to continue after this point, your subjecting yourself to another 10 chapters of tedium and 6 hours of listening. Beware. Finally, the major takeaway from this novel is that because of our collective herd mentality that we have inherited from microbes, communities will vote against their own interests to stay in accordance with the herd consensus. Additionally, the democratic, free-thinking lifestyle of the Pythagoreans and the ultra-rigid structure of the Spartans will always be entangled and in competition for each other in all communities, even in modern-day times. So sometimes, it's okay to be liberal and sometimes it's okay to be rigid. The rigidness of social structures act as bump stops to keep a community from self-destructing from the fall out of a liberal lifestyle. However, the liberal lifestyle is necessary to understand and evolve from the acumen of resources gathered from the adherence to an ultra-rigid spartan lifestyle. I am so done with this review. Good luck and God Bless you.
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Generale4 out of 5 stars
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- Emily Meyers
- 05/09/2022
Interesting but Redundant
Some cool ideas in here but for some reason the author recites the same quote about “those that haveth gain more, those that don’t haveth all taken away” around 7-9 times. While the quote is thought provoking, isn’t one of the meta goals of a “global brain” to evolve out of the unjust inequality embodied by the quote? I fail to understand why the author wants to celebrate this “might makes right” ethos with seems backwards and outdated.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- KC
- 19/08/2022
A guide to enlightenment really
This book is nothing short of an attempt at a global intellectual reset. Nothing short of a plea to all humanity to step back and see the human experience in a way only modern humans could appreciate in this incredible analyzation of known biological history it is also an autopsy of our past. In this comprehensive account of mammalian evolution the language of our ascent is the same language that will propel us forward. Depending on how thoroughly we understand our journey and the biological language of natural selection as well as our evolving cognitive dexterity. We will carry on business as usual or notice before it’s too late that our history is a map to our future in many ways if we just learn to understand what it is telling us we could prosper still.
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Generale3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 14/04/2022
some very high highs but some rather low lows too
it starts if great chatting creation but he goes off the rails with spurious science and his somewhat unhelpful global brain analogy
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- Anonymous User
- 20/04/2021
interesting but confused wandering falls short
A good amount of key facts littered in here make a listen worthwhile but, unfortunately, the confused use of terminology taken from one area of the world and applied to another without any modification or clarification leaves the whole book a sloppy mess more likely to misguide readers than educate them; the author fails to elucidate the elusive principle he purports to show by his surface survey of worldly features.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- TS
- 16/01/2023
Fun reading packed with wide knowledge
Fun reading packed with wide knowledge across multiple historical, scientific specialities. Excellent excercise for reader brain. Inspirational...
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- Tarran
- 18/12/2022
Fantastic, encompassing work
This is a brilliant, accessible introduction to mass mind with a wonderful conclusion. The reader needs to learn to pause between paragraphs and key points to avoid making exciting material sound dull.