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Howard Bloom Quotes

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“Nature has been far more clever at connectionism than have we. Her mechanisms for information swapping, data processing, and collective creation are more intricate and agile than anything the finest computer theoreticians have yet foreseen.”
— Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Tagged: Agile, Connectionism, Evolution, Movement, Nature
“With all of our Internetting, with all of our World Wide Webbing, with all of our URLs, we're still not anywhere near being able to swap the quantities of information that bacteria were able to swap via the bacterial airlines, which means your everyday goose flying from one continent to another.”
— Howard Bloom, Disinformation: The Interviews: Uncut & Uncensored
Tagged: Bacteria, Connectionism, Data Movement, Transfer
“Well the global brain is not something that's electronic and it has nothing to do with the World Wide Web and it has nothing to do with the Internet; we were World Wide Webbed and Internetted 3.5 billion years ago when life first began.”
— Howard Bloom, Disinformation: The Interviews: Uncut & Uncensored
Tagged: Connection, Connectionism, Data, Electronic, Global Brain, Internet, Relationalism
“People— once they became metropolitan, once they developed cities, and once they developed a high degree of trade between cities— began to gather together, not on the basis of tribal loyalties, but on the basis of mental loyalties. People who shared a common idea or people who shared a common emotional set could find other people like them in other cities and gather together in international subcultures.”
— Howard Bloom, Disinformation: The Interviews: Uncut & Uncensored
Tagged: Beyond Tribalism, Bonding, Connection, Evolution, Network, Networking, Tribes, Urbanization
“Science itself is one of the major conformity enforcing areas. There are dogmas in science that are held to as if they were religions and people who say things that are against those dogmas are cast out just as viciously as they are from any other subculture. We've got to get beyond that, we've got to get to the point where the outriders, where the eccentrics, where the people who come up with the really wacky ideas that turn out to be the ideas of the future are allowed into the establishment, and are incorporated much more quickly than they've been incorporated in the past.”
— Howard Bloom, Disinformation: The Interviews: Uncut & Uncensored
Tagged: Conformity, Diversity Generators, Dogma, Marginalization, Science, Think Different
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