Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday June 27, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07 * ------------------------------ A World of Views: society and social governance on the brink of the Singularity Viktoras Veitas <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/viktoras-veitas/3/119/a82> & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/weaver9> (ECCO,GBI) Our envisioning of the brink of Singularity begins with redefining Singularity as an historical process rather than an event. It is the process of continuous intelligence expansion since the beginning of human civilization. We emphasize the value and significance of the continuity of this process rather than the intermediate stages through which it passes. By that, we position the brink of Singularity situation within the continuum of human evolution, the evolution of life and evolution as a universal process. We raise the question what would be the desired configuration and dynamics of the sociotechnological system able to facilitate open-ended intelligence expansion. A World of Views is our vision of such a configuration. It is based on developing a framework of distributed cognition adapted for the world sociotechnological system. We also use this framework for asking general questions about intelligence expansion. In the seminar we will present our work related to the vision of the Global Brain and the future of human society as a global cognitive system. We will discuss distributed social governance as a bootstrapping mechanism and mobilization system for the Global Brain and its evolution as a cognitive agency. We will also argue, based on the concepts of fragility and antifragility, why a World of Views is likely to be the only feasible configuration capable of sustaining the Singularity as a process of intelligence escaping its biological constraints. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars None for now. We'll start the new series in October, check the website to stay updated. See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
