The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change.

Olivier Servais's Presentation:

Beyond Individualism: The Organic Dynamics of Digital Sociability and the Guild Model

This talk explores the tension between digital technology’s role in fostering individualism and its potential to enable new forms of collective life. While phenomena such as hikikomori and rising social anxieties support fears of digital isolation, emerging studies on online and hybrid communities challenge this perspective. Drawing on the concept of “guilds,” historically rooted in mutual aid and collaboration, the talk examines their digital resurgence as models for organizing collective life across online and offline domains. Additionally, it considers the rise of hybrid communities involving humans, bots, and AI, which reconfigure traditional notions of sociability. The discussion posits a shift from "digital natives" to "digital autochthons," inhabitants of a new digital-human ecology, offering insights into the evolution of collective identity and social organization in the 21st century.

N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐

The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution.

N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future.

We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere.

Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Iu5Y_G4nrqg

Join us for an immersive evening of dialogue, connection, and insight at Human Energy's New York City Salon, recorded live at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus on June 12, 2025. This salon is part of the Human Energy Global Salon Series.
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This salon, title Human Energy for Work & Life: Cultivating Agency, Connection, and Purposes in the Age of AI brings together leading thinkers in science, business, psychology, and AI. Together, we'll consider how human energy—our capacity for resilience, adaptability, and connection—can be cultivated in the face of today’s complex personal and planetary challenges. Through conversation and community, we’ll explore the science of human connection, prosocial AI, the role of leadership in complexity, and the emerging paradigms reshaping how we live and work.

HOST:

Sheila Hassell Hughes
CEO, HUMAN ENERGY
Professor and Former Dean of Liberal Arts, Saint Mary’s College of California

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Cornelia C. Walther
Director, POZE, a global alliance for systemic change that benefits people and planet
Wharton AI & Analytics Visiting Scholar

Raj Sisodia
FEMSA Distinguished University Professor and Chairman,
Conscious Enterprise Center, Tecnológico de Monterrey

James A. Coan
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Virginia

David S. Wilson
Human Energy Advisory Board Member
SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University


Learn more:
https://www.humanenergy.io/events/fordham-salon

The N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South conference explored the intersection of technology, society, and the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness. Hosted by Human Energy and UM6P, this year’s event brought together leading thinkers, visionaries, and innovators to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by the techno-social era. Through engaging presentations and collaborative dialogue, N2 2024 aims to inspire actionable insights and transformative change.

Natasha Vita More Presentation:

The Human Mind: An Homage (or Love Letter)

This talk traces the remarkable journey of our species' most distinctive asset: our capacity for complex thought and self-awareness. The human mind has evolved as an instrument of possibility through courage, creativity, reasoning, and optimism—the traits that form cornerstones of our species' success. These traits have empowered humans to transcend biological limitations, overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges, and actively shape our individual and collective destiny. From the first stone tools to modern artificial intelligence, from cave paintings to quantum physics, we see how the human mind's capacity for innovation and abstract thought has consistently propelled us toward a noösphere. Yet, as AI becomes increasingly intertwined with cognitive processes, can we distinguish between our innate human mind and AI-influenced thinking? And more crucially, could AI erode what makes our minds uniquely human or significantly evolve our minds beyond what we can conceptualize today?

N2 2024: The Noosphere & The Global South took place on December 16th - 18th in Ben Guerir, Morocco 🌐

The N2 Conference looks to deepen our present understanding and future vision for the noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution.

N2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading scientists, scholars from across the disciplines, thought leaders, creative artists, and all those who are interested in the meaning and possibility of the noosphere for our collective future.

We invite you to join the conversation and keep watching more N2 2024 presentations on this channel. Subscribe for updates and insights as we continue to explore the transformative potential of worldview, technology and the noosphere.

Learn more at https://www.humanenergy.io/

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RFHzLW2isA8