1. Wikipedia and the Global Brain. Dan Bolser and Jong Bhak B i Oconference 2009

2. Overview

Six points:

• Social super-organisms exist everywhere in nature.

• Can be described as ( B i O ) Interacting Objects.

• Such networks perform information processing.

• Networks can form layers.

• Humans can engineer their interaction networks.

• The conclusion is a biological philosophy.

3. Social super-organisms 4.

Evolution has repeatedly discovered this paradigm.

Ultimately, 'nothing exists in isolation'.

5. Example from metagenomics of the human intestinal microbiome:

We should regard ourselves as 'superorganisms' together with the indigenous microbes and that the composite genome should be referred to as the human 'metagenome'.

• The human intestinal microbiome: a new frontier of human biology. 2009.Hattori M, Taylor TD .DNA Res.16:1-12

6. Representation as BiO 7. 8. 9. 10. Information processing 11. 12. 13. Information Processing

Sensitivity of signalling cascades

Communication

• Bees

• Bats

Computation

• Brains

• Bacteria

14. Clip (swarming bats.mpg) 15. Stable networks of interactions form the nodes of higher level networks 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Basic 'Cybernetics'

Metasystem Transitionand its resultant

Emergence and Transcendence

• The substrate affects (creates) the metasystem level (bottom-up), and then the metasystem affects the substrate (top-down).

• Back and forth, back and forth until it stabilizes into a new life form.

21. Example

Before global communications, we didn't have weather satellites. Now, anyone can get a forecast and dress accordingly.

So the meta-layer has directly affected the substrate (the way someone dresses).

If people decide to build a new satellite, you have the substrate affecting the meta-layer.

When it provides better forecasts, the meta-layer again affects the substrate.

22. Human interaction networks can be designed 23. Clip (swarming fish.mpg) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgHEhziUxU 24.

Open source projects facilitate creative and productive community interaction

• Social engineering

25. Open Human

Human 2.0

Genetic basis for social institutions?

• Genetic determinants of risk (SNPs)

• Banking institutions could organize risk within their business structure.

26. 27. Conclusion

Wikipedia is an artefact of theGlobal Brain :

• It is a product of the collective, interacting network of human beings, linked via technologically advanced communication hardware and software protocols and is produced within a community agreed framework for guiding the creation of content.

28. Conclusion

The fundamental unit of evolution is not an individual 'thing'.

It is a network of 'interacting things' that persists in time.

• The Atom of Evolution. 2004.Jonghwa Bhak, Dan Bolser, Daeui Park, Yoobok Cho, Kiesuk Yoon, Semin Lee, SungSam, Gong, Insoo Jang, Changbum Park, Maryana Huston, Hwanho Choi. Genomics & Informatics2:167-173.

29. Thanks Thank you for interacting! Thanks to every node in the giant network of interactions that forms the information processing architecture of the universe! Thanks toDon Stockbauerfor many discussions about the GB, and for providing the examples. 30. 31. a) memory b) processes A system for information processing must have: 32.