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From Cyberspace to Noosphere

Prof. Pierre LévyCanada Research Chair on Collective Intelligence

University of Ottawaplevy@uottawa.ca

Parma, Minerva Symposium, November 2003

Evolution of Human Language

Ubiquity and interconnection of ideas in cyberspace. Autonomous capacity of action of certain species of writing (i.e. software life and robotics).

Technical self-reproduction of the alphabet and images.

telephone, cinema, sound recording, electronic media

Writing becomes universal and digital.

Language get an autonomous technical memory.

Oral transmission, myths, rites, memory inscribed in matter.

OralityOrality

WritingWriting

AlphabetAlphabet

Printing pressPrinting press

CyberspaceCyberspaceNoosphere : real time vizualisation of the global Collective Intelligence dynamics

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Collective Intelligence

Mirror

FROM CYBERSPACE TO NOOSPHERE

Perception

Sensors everywhere recording data

Wifi broadband interactive telecommunication

Memory

General interconnection of all the documents

Search engines fed and guided by collective Intelligence

ActionCooperative design of complex

systemsReasoning

Collective deliberation assisted by cyberspace

Complex phenomena

graphic simulation

Communication

Multi-user virtual worlds for game, learning and cooperationSkills search engines

& on line competence assessment

Robots / knowbots

societiesIdentity

Cyberspace immune system

BandwidthDigitalstorage

ComputationalPower

Interconnections

The scientific basis of the Noosphere will be a CI-oriented semantic web.

The future CI-semantic web will compute a graphic 3D simulation of the hypercomplex human Collective Intelligence processes.

Historic comparisons : modern cartography, telescope, microscope, medical images, cyclotrons, radio-astronomic observatories, satellite images, etc.

Making the Invisible Visible

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Enhancing Harmony

• The cultural life is increasingly traveling or being described through cyberspace.

• In addressing the digital transactions and informations according to an universal ontology, the future semantic web can become the Noosphere

• The Noosphere will translate the chaotic digital data flow which conveys the cultural life into a meaningful whole reflecting human Collective Intelligence.

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Cherishing DiversityCherishing Diversity

The Collective Intelligence Ontology is structured like an open, hypertextual, fractal, peer to peer (P2P) network of concepts. It proposes a scientific model of CI.

As an universal ontology, the CIO values and promotes cultural diversity (memory), cultural differentiation (exploration) and cultural evolution (learning).

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SEMANTIC WEB

Real data from cyberspace,

organized by a CI ontology

Dynamic mapping of Collective Intelligence

Decision support system

for human development

CYBERSPACECYBERSPACE

INTERDEPENDANTDATA REPOSITORIES, DATA

FLUX AND DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS

Collective Intelligence MIRROR

NOOSPHERENOOSPHEREScientific image of Cyberspace

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The Human Cultural Heritage will be the « rosebud » of the Noosphere

• Libraries and museums are converging in the cyberspace on a global scale.

• The digital convergence of the human cultural heritage should be organized by a meta-ontology, or universal ontology, based on a scientific model of CI.

• After walking on the moon and deciphering the human genome, the Noosphere Project should be our next big leading scientific and cultural project.

• The people responsible of the human cultural heritage, should be the first to commit themselves to the Noosphere Project.

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The All-inclusive « Religion » of Noosphere

• One single commandment : - All human cultural heritages are sacred.

• One single Temple of the Noosphere : - The Temple contains all the human cultural heritages.

• One single economic rule : - The sacred cultural heritages of the human kind are free common goods.

Collective

Intelligence

creationcreation

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Noosphere Creative Loop

Consciousness begins with memory