Futurability by Francesco Berardi

Author:Francesco Berardi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

Neurology of Ants and the Evolution of Man

‘The Net is an emblem of multiples. Out of it comes swarm being – distributed being – spreading the self over the entire web so that no part can say “I am the I” … It conveys the power both of Computer and Nature, which in turn convey a power before understanding.’9

In almost mystical terms, Kevin Kelly here outlines a philosophical vision of the replacement of conscious political control with the distribution of embedded rules of compliance inside the individual organism and within the superorganism.

As very large webs penetrate the made world, we see the first glimpses of what emerges from that net – machines that become alive, and evolve, a neo-biological civilisation. There is a sense in which a global mind also emerges in a network culture. The global mind is the union of computer and nature, of telephones and human minds and more. It is a very large complexity of indeterminate shape governed by an invisible hand of its own. We humans will be unconscious of what the global mind ponders. This is not because we are not smart enough, but because the design of a mind does not allow the parts to understand the whole. The particular thoughts of the global mind – and its subsequent actions – will be out of our control and beyond our understanding.10

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