From Intelligent Networks to Global Brains

Evolutionary Social Organization through Knowledge Technology

The First Global Brain Workshop (GBrain 0)

Tue, July 3

• Francis Heylighen (VUB): Why the Global Superorganism Must Evolve a Brain [Video]
• Cliff Joslyn (LANL): What Could We Mean By "Global Brain": How Distributed Knowledge Systems Facilitate Social Control in Semiotic Agent-Based Architectures [Slides, Video]
• Parker Rossman (ASIS World Brain group): University and the Global Brain - Some Questions [Video]
• Gottfried Mayer-Kress (Pennsylvania State University): International Conferences as "Binding Events" in a Global Brain [Slides, Video]
• Bill Hibbard (University of Wisconsin): Network Diameter and Emotional Values in the Global Brain [Video]
• Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University): Evolutionary Units and Adaptive Intelligence: why a brain could not be produced by internal evolutionary processes (but could be composed of such) [Video]
• Susantha Goonatilake (New School for Social Research, New York): Information currents in an interlinked ocean of genes, cultures and computing artifacts [Video] 

Wed, July 4

• Joël de Rosnay (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris): Bioelectronic man/machine interfaces and symbiotic intelligent environments; increase in complexity of the Internet interfaces and the darwinian process of selective stabilization of internet nodes [Video]
• Francis Heylighen (VUB): Technologies for an Intelligent Web [Video]
• Johan Bollen (LANL): Experiments with web learning and spreading activation (?) [Video]
• Bryan Thompson (Global Wisdom, Washington DC): The Cognitive Web [PowerPoint, Video]
• Ben Goertzel (Webmind): The Webmind AI Engine as the Cortex of the Global Brain [Video, Part2]
• Craig A. Kaplan (iQ inc. & University of California Santa Cruz): Forecasting Stock Prices Using Collective Intelligence [Video]
• Ben Goertzel (Webmind), Yuri V. Macklakov (Webmind), Vladimir G. Red'ko (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics): Model of Evolution of Web Agents [Video]

Thu, July 5

• Stephan Bugaj (Webmind): Computer-Human Shared Intelligence [Video]
• Ben Houston (Carleton University, Ottawa): Augmenting Human Intellect [Video]
• George Pór (Center for Advanced Learning Technologies, INSEAD): Using Dynamic Knowledge Repositories to Support "Real-Time/Delayed Time" Synergy in Global Communities that Learn [Video]
• Anthony Judge and Nadia McLaren (Union of International Associations, Brussels): Simulating a Global Brain - Phobias, Delusions, Psychoses and All: using networks of international organizations, world problems, strategies, and values [Video]
• Shann Turnbull (Macquarie University, Sydney): Design criteria for a Global Brain [Video]