Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a "grand vision," says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.
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HOWARD BLOOM, author of the critically acclaimed book The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, is a Visiting Scholar at New York University. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, as well as the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project. He has been written up in every edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering since the publication's inception.
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Prologue: Biology, Evolution, and the Global Brain.
Creative Nets in the Precambrian Era.
Networking in Paleontology's "Dark Ages".
The Embryonic Meme.
From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions: Complex Adaptive Systems in Jurassic Days.
Mammals and the Further Rise of Mind.
Threading a New Tapestry.
A Trip through the Perception Factory.
Reality Is a Shared Hallucination.
The Conformity Police.
Diversity Generators: The Huddle and the Squabble--Group Fission.
The End of the Ice Age and the Rise of Urban Fire.
The Weave of Conquest and the Genes of Trade.
Greece, Miletus, and Thales: The Birth of the Boundary Breakers.
Sparta and Baboonery: The Guesswork of Collective Mind.
The Pluralism Hypothesis: Athens' Underside.
Pythagoras, Subcultures, and Psycho-Bio-Circuitry.
Swiveling Eyes and Pivoting Minds: The Pull of Influence Attractors.
Outstretch, Upgrade, and Irrationality: Science and the Warps of Mass Psychology.
The Kidnap of Mass Mind: Fundamentalism, Spartanism, and the Games Subcultures Play.
Interspecies Global Mind.
Conclusion: The Reality of the Mass Mind's Dreams: Terraforming the Cosmos.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Acknowledgments.
Index.