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 2014-2015)
Time: Friday December 19, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07* ------------------------------ Could we become more humane as we become more *Sapiens*? Maximizing our hearts along with our minds Jeanne Dietsch <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannedietsch> (Sapiens plurum) Abstract: Artificial intelligence has always focused on *how* to improve rational thought and utility, with much less consideration on *why* that intelligence might be applied. But now tight connections among people and their smart devices are forming global brains, or *Sapiens plurum*. Artificial general intelligences are under development. We are beginning to question what will drive this evolving new species of humanity. Is there a way to maximize our hearts, the best of humankind-ness, along with our minds? Is there a way to assure that our next-generation *Homo sapiens* is not just smarter, but truly wiser? This ECCO/GBI seminar will combine insights from cognitive and complexity science to investigate this question and a possible answer: integrate somatic markers into *Sapiens plurum *self-perception to enhance humaneness and human well-being, as well as intelligence. Bio Jeanne Dietsch is an observer and instigator of change. She became president of her first tech start-up at age 29. She published the world’s first market research study of ecommerce in 1995 just after the Internet opened to business. She was co-founder and CEO of MobileRobots Inc, the leading provider of research robots to universities and the first to apply Markov localization and map-based autonomous navigation to commercial use. Jeanne helped found the US defense industry’s national Robotics Technology Consortium. She obtained patents in autonomous navigation and wrote a quarterly column for IEEE *Robotics and Automation* magazine. In 2012, she gained the Robert C. Seamans Jr Fellowship for Science and Technology Policy to study at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. This year she founded *Sapiens plurum* (the “wisdom of many”), now affiliated with GBI. *Sapiens plurum* is a non-governmental organization that tracks and hopes to intercede in the evolution of global intelligence, toward the well-being of humankind*. * ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars None for this season, you'll be kept up to date for the next season. 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/>
