NEUROSPHERE:THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION, THE INTERNET, AND GROUP MIND

Book ID/图书代码： 11922006B01134

English Summary/英文概要： Key Selling Points • Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet--Teilhard de Chardin--with his famous definition of the "noosphere" - toward which humankind was evolving and the maxim "everything that rises must converge" did. It’s evolutionary, the logical extension of what’s come before • The Internet is rapidly becoming the central nervous system of a collective intelligence, a global brain, a giant leap forward in evolution • Where do humans end and machines start? Where does "I" end and "we" start? What’s science? What’s fiction? What’s reality? • Despite all our surface difference, somehow we are all part of entity - call it Neurosphere, call it God, call it what you will. Brief Description The real action on the Internet isn’t commerce. It’s, plain and simple, religion, but not exactly that old-time religion. This book is about the religious impact of our increasing ability to communicate quickly and with enhanced evolution. It’s a book about our search for meaning, our hunger for a glimpse at humanity’s future development - in which - frighteningly or excitingly - the trend is clear toward increasing integration of telecommunications and information technology into the body itself. Electronic prosthetics, direct neural implants and the brain’s control of electronic and mechanical limbs move the boundary that used to exist between human and machine to some undefined frontier inside our bodies, our brains, and, perhaps our minds. "And, if the electronics inside my brain connect directly with the electronics inside your brain, how is it meaningful to speak as though we are not part of one, larger entity?" Dulchinos writes. Or everything that rises must converge. Or, we are all part of God. Or, we are all moving toward living in the field, sharing group mind. This is heady and complicated stuff, made accessible. Dulchinos traces ideas of evolution, anthropology, biology, theology - which point toward a betterment, a unity - and argues cogently that these ideas find their embodiment in technology of the world wide web. Neurosphere or God or Group mind - call it what you will, what it’s about is technology and the mechanics of unity. Although other books on new technology and new consciousness touch on many of the ideas in Neurosphere, none do so in quite such a straightforward, logical way. Dulchinos has the way of telling personal stories that make the technical accessible for the dreamer, the spiritual sensical for the skeptic, the future of body technology less fear-based for everyone. And, just because I like it, the epigraph for chapter 2 on Teilhard, "The final war will be fought between those who believe and those who don’t." - Paul Krassner

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 互联网的真正作用不是商业，很简单，是宗教，但不是传统意义上的宗教。本书是关于现代化的通讯手段是如何岣呶颐枪低ǖ哪芰Γ俳诮痰姆⒄埂１臼橐庠谔角笊囊庖澹死嗌硖宓姆⒄故橇钊丝志宓囊彩橇钊思ざ模硖宓姆⒄骨魇凭褪牵合执耐ㄑ妒侄沃苯咏肴颂迥诓俊５缪逗胖苯咏肴颂迳窬低常竽岳纯刂频缪逗藕突邓闹囊贫Ｊ谷颂搴突得挥忻飨缘慕缦蕖Ｈ绻掖竽灾械牡缧藕胖苯油愦竽缘牡缧藕帕樱翘富案枚嗝从幸馑及　Ｍ蛭锕橐唬颐鞘巧系鄣囊徊糠郑颐枪餐钤诘厍蛏希颐枪蚕碇腔邸Ｕ馐且桓隽钊四讯奈侍猓巳媚憷斫釪ulchinos追溯了进化论，人文学，生物学和神学的思想，这些都趋向于一个整体。这些思想找到了一个载体，那就是互联网。不管你把它叫什么，神经中枢，上帝还是别的什么，它就是现代科技的统一体。虽然有些书接触到了中枢神经的一些思想，但却没有一本这么有逻辑，这么直接。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Donald P. Dulchinos has spent the last fifteen years working in various aspects of cable television. He has been involved in on-line network communities for at least that long, being among other things a charter member of the Boulder Community Network, and an early, active member and Conference Host on The Well, an electronic community. He has written two books on consciousness and spirituality, Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater and Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism in Western Civilization, forthcoming in 2005.

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