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June 30, 2003

Double helix of social evolution

Visiting with a friend in San Francisco, I picked up a book which probes the posibility that information transmitted by coherent biophotonic light that living cells--including our DNA--produce, can be received in defocalized state of consciousness. It’s “The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge” by Jeremy Narby. What struck me is the connection of what biologists know about the DNA with the relationship between factors that drive humankind socioeconomic evolution that I tried explore and visualize here and the two slides following that one.

The following statements from Narby’s book triggered some interesting questions for me:


Posted by George Por, Mon, Jun 30 2003 06:25 PM
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Categories: Collective Intellect Augments Individual |
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June 13, 2003

Are we curious enough?

Robin Good and John Kellden commented on "Innervation leading to synchronicity?". Their comments inspired the following message.

Robin and John, thanks to you for coming back here and commenting. In a small scale, your act is part of what I referred to, using Teilhard's term, as "innervation."


Posted by George Por, Fri, Jun 13 2003 01:27 PM
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Categories: Synchronicity and CI |
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June 08, 2003

Innervation leading to synchronicity?

In his comment on the "Explaining collective intelligence to non-specialists" entry, Robin Good wrote:

> Another important aspect that adds up exponentially to the viability created by a noosphere is the aspect of synchronicity. Ideas and concepts are not only technologically subsidized and in their ability to spread and feed each other, but new concepts and worldviews are simultaneously accessed from multiple individual viewpoints during this very time.

Below is what Robin's thoughts inspired.


Posted by George Por, Sun, Jun 08 2003 04:09 PM
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Cognitive relations, relations of knowledge production

I came across a germinal thought, the full appreciation of which is essential to understand the dynamics of the electronic and inner technologies of intellectual production. It comes from Pierre-Léonard Harvey, a professor of "communautique" at Université de Québec à Montréal:

"Les infrastructures et les technologies devraient être subordonnées aux relations cognitives (l'individu négociant avec l'environnement informationnel) et aux relations qui se développent... dans le processus de production des connaissances. Il nous faut concevoir l'individu comme un système vivant qui cherche à contrôler et à gérer l'information qui lui vient du monde extérieur."
Excerpt from L'écologie cognitive, une écologie communicationnelle

A surprisingly good Google translation to English and my comment follows.


Posted by George Por, Sun, Jun 08 2003 02:06 PM
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