Collective Consciousness in the Age of Networks

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Collective Consciousness in the Age of Networks Guillaume Dumas

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Presents how recent research in networks and social interaction, more than changing neuroscience, sheds new light on socioeconomic and cultural changes in our society.

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Collective Consciousness in the Age of NetworksGuillaume Dumas

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Part 1Brain

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The Turing Machine

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Image: The Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. (1992)

Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela

Wait!Is the brain

really like a

computer?

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Autonomy

Coupling

Environment

Autopoïesis

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Autopoïesis

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Autopoïesis

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Multicellular

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The Brainweb

Image: F. Varela, J-P. Lachaux, E. Rodriguez & J. Martinerie (2001)

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Cognitive autonomy

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Social interaction

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Image: G. Dumas, J. Nadel, R. Soussignan, J. Martinerie & L. Garnero

(2010)

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Image: G. Dumas, M. Chavez, & J.Nadel Martinerie (2012)

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Brain network (2005)Olivier Goulet

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Facebook's Project PalantirCredit: Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford

The Global Village

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“Collective or

creative consciousness”

The Division of Labour in Society (1893)

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Part 2Society

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The Network of Global Corporate ControlS. Vitali, J.B. Glattfelder & S. Battiston (2011)

2008 Financial Crisis

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An epileptic focus?

The Network of Global Corporate ControlS. Vitali, J.B. Glattfelder & S. Battiston (2011)

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What is the main problem here?

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Community ~ Mobility

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Regular SmallWorld

Random

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Control ~ Resilience

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MeshTree Rhizome

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Control ~ Resilience

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MeshTree Rhizome

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Control ~ Resilience

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MeshTree Rhizome

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The illusion of choice (I.Imgur.com)

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The illusion of choice (frugaldad.com)

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Big Cloudis watching you!

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Part 3The Power

of Connectivit

y

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Knowledge

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Creativity

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Software

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ScienceOpen Science

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“This is the first time a constitutionis being drafted basically on the

Internet”Thorvaldur Gylfason, Member of Iceland's Constitutional

Council

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It is all aboutconnecting

people & ideas!

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