The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change.

Parham Pourdavood's Presentation:

AI reframed as an organic evolutionary process fueled by human creativity

Debates surrounding the nature of artificial intelligence (AI) often revolve around whether AI is evolving into an independent intelligent entity with agency or if it remains a form of algorithmic mimicry, destined to remain disconnected from the organic principles that govern cognition and life. A closer examination suggests that while AI systems lack agency and the essential organic principles needed for selfhood and cognition, they operate according to a logic that mirrors a principle within organisms—namely, the dynamic compression and decompression of information. Just as compressed genetic information is utilized and decompressed by cells through novel interactions—ultimately giving rise to the development of cognition and agency at the collective scale of the organism—technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) can be viewed as compressed forms of humanity’s behavioral patterns, which, when creatively interpreted and utilized, could afford the development of identity and agency at a planetary scale. From this perspective, an ethical framework emerges in which AI serves as a tool for amplifying human perspective, imagination, collaboration, and self-reflection, while offering an organic model and precedent for a harmonious relationship between the embodied, intuitive nature of living beings and their abstract, compressed representations. This vision echoes Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the “collective memory of the human race” as an organic phenomenon, where the liberation of human creativity through automation might enable a novel evolutionary process on a planetary scale.

N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐

The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution.

N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future.

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