Adventures for the mind--a cyberportal to science, art, and history based on Howard Bloom's books The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain. An odyssey through the evolution of culture.

<body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'> <TITLE>Global Brain: the evolution of mass mind from the big bang to the 21st century is the follow-up to Howard Bloom's first book, The Lucifer Principle: a scientific expedition into the forces of history</TITLE> <META name="description" content="Howard Bloom's Global Brain is filled with scientific firsts. It is the first book to make a strong, solidly backed, and theoretically-original case that we do not live the lonely lives of selfish beings driven by selfish genes, but are parts of a larger whole. �It is the first to take this idea out of the realm of mysticism and into the sphere of hard-nosed, data-derived reality. And it is one of the few books which carry off such grand visions with energy, excitement, and keen insight.--Elizabeth Loftus, past president, American Psychological Society"> <META name="keywords" content="cultural evolution, evolution of culture, evolution of cooperation, Howard Bloom, Global Brain, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century, The Lucifer Principle, The Lucifer Principle: a scientific expedition into the forces of history, evolution of mind, evolution of cooperation, evolution of learning, Internet, evolution of the World Wide Web, bacterial intelligence, history of trade, history of cities, history of civilization, selfish gene, origin of learning, social evolution, prehistory, evolution of memes, science, animal behavior, animal intelligence, Neolithic cities, evolution of subcultures, humanities, history, psychology, mind, intelligence, reality, perception, swap, trade, commerce, exchange, insight, hypothesis, theory, evolution of memory, archaeology, best book about, world, universe, cosmos, biology, Global Brain, network, networking, communication, imitation, meme, data, transmission, sharing, emotion, synergy, gene, team, competition, cooperation, conformity, diversity, health, illness, medicine, contagion, virus, bacteria, culture, Neanderthal, tools, stone tools, weave, integrate, evolution, Darwin, war, conflict, world war, Greece, Athens, Sparta, galaxy, black hole, compute, genome, engineering, neurobiology, immune system, swarm, flock, bird, fish, reptile, dinosaur, group, community, social, sociality, origin, life, DNA, HIV, AIDs, education, neural net, enemy, ally, alliance, strategy, tactic, opportunity, danger, risk, farming, wheat, agriculture, religion, worship, goddess, god, bull, business, consciousness, language, symbol, hierarchy, status, attention, baboon, chimpanzee, insect, bee, Lucifer Principle, paleopsychology, evolution, culture, microbiology, neuroscience, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, anthropology, sociology, information, trade, Neolithic, Jurassic, Ediacaran, Cambrian, individual selection, Neo-Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, group selection, current events, Greek history, Pythagoreanism, Pythagoras, philosophy, systems science, cell biology, memetics, memes, medicine, virology, animal behavior, paleontology, sociology, physics, science, Gaia, microorganisms, bacteria, fundamentalism, superorganism, collective, altruism"> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal>> </p> <p class=MsoNormal>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9942212-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> </body>