NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology | Video

by Alex Vikoulov

“Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.”   -Ryan Bethencourt

We now know that all extant living creatures derive from a single common ancestor, called the 'Last Universal Common Ancestor' (LUCA). It’s hard to think of a more unifying view of life. All living things are linked to a single-celled creature, the deepest root to the complex-branching tree of life. If we could play the movie of life backward, we would find this microscopic primogenitor at the starting point of biological evolution, the sole actor in what would become a very dramatic story, lasting some 3.5 billion years leading to us.
​

Video: NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology - Ecstadelic Media (cc)

​​
​What made us human? Beginning 1.5 million years ago with Homo erectus, a more efficient way to obtain and ingest more calories in less time – cooking – led to the rapid acquisition of a huge number of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for finding patterns, reasoning, developing technology, and passing it on through culture. The human brain, a primate organ of the mind, owes its cognitive abilities to the enormous number and connectivity of neurons in the cerebral cortex, namely the neocortex. It’s not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have a larger number of more optimally connected neurons in our neocortex than any other primate. ​

A proper understanding of evolution reveals humankind in its glorious uniqueness that compounded over time – one foot planted firmly among all of the creatures we’ve evolved alongside and the other in the special place of conscious self-awareness and understanding of higher purpose that we now occupy in the grand scheme of things. At times, it may seem as if the entire prior history of the Universe led us to this pivotal moment of realization that we are the “brain cells” of a larger planetary superorganism, progressively morphing into one Global Mind. 

- Excerpt from NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology by Alex M. Vikoulov, available now as eBook on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XLPWZT

---

Few more quotes from the book:

P.S. NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology introduces the Syntellect Theory of Mind (or the Cybernetic Theory of Mind) that I'm currently developing. An entire concluding chapter of the book is dedicated to the five foundational axioms of the Cybernetic Theory of Mind. 


Tags: noogenesis, Computational Biology, tree of life, noosphere, evolution of life, evolutionary biology, evolutionary cybernetics, last universal common ancestor, luca, cortex, cerebral cortex, neocortex, computational neuroscience, digital physics, computational physics, brain cell, neuron, superorganism, global brain, global mind, Alex Vikoulov, universe, planetary superorganism, consciousness, awareness, evolution

​Image Credit: Shutterstock​​


​About the Author:
Alex Vikoulov is a futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher, founder of Ecstadelic Media Group, painter, essayist, media commentator, author of "The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution," "The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and The Omega Point Cosmology," "The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics," "The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence," "Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality," "NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology." Self-described neo-transcendentalist, cosmist, transhumanist singularitarian. Lives in Burlingame, California (San Francisco Bay Area). More Bio...

e-mail: alexvikoulov@ecstadelic.net
​
​