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.

Evolution and Future of the Noosphere Roundtable

Panelists: Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi, Gregory Stock
Moderator: Michael Jacob

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.

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Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PKUuO1q73_g

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.

Panel discussion titled: Democracy, Technology, and Modernity in the Noosphere

Panelists: Raphaël Liogier, Lorenzo Marsili
Moderator: Shima Beigi

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.

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Watch: https://youtu.be/DkJMd63Z2j0

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.

Clément Vidal's Presentation:

The Noosphere Narrative: Bridging the Anthropocene, Gaia and the Technological Singularity for Planetary Progress

Narratives for our global future are dominated by the Anthropocene, the Gaia hypothesis, or the technological singularity. However, these narratives paint a biased picture and fail to offer a consistent and hopeful vision for our future. We argue that the noosphere can offer a synthesis of these narratives, and introduce new concepts to this end. A key idea of the Anthropocene is the great acceleration, creating destructive and out-of-control dynamics, that we propose to counter with a great regulation to stabilize Earth systems. A central insight of the Gaia hypothesis is the discovery of feedback loops between the geosphere and the biosphere. We argue that feedback from humans and the noosphere should be included into this picture, forming a broader “Anthropogaia”. The technological singularity advocates often have a blind faith in the salvatory potential of technology. We argue that this potential should serve more a planetary vision, and less transhumanist themes and hopes. The noosphere can also be framed as the first planetary major evolutionary transition, and usefully described with living systems theory to identify and tackle global challenges. In sum, we argue that the noosphere is a unique vision and narrative that invites systemic action to tackle global challenges, while providing a positive and consistent evolutionary outlook into the future.

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/r5pGwrdRaVU

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.

Bruno Gérard's Presentation:

Synergy, Sustainability, and African Agriculture

African agriculture stands at a critical juncture, shaped by dynamic drivers of change including rapid urbanization, demographic growth, and climate pressures. While agriculture remains the backbone of livelihoods for millions, its low-input, subsistence-based systems are increasingly unsustainable. These challenges are exacerbated by resource constraints, erratic rainfall, and degraded soils, which hinder productivity and resilience. The need for transformation has never been greater​.


Opportunities lie in adopting sustainable intensification approaches that enhance productivity without degrading natural resources. Digital tools, mechanization, and innovations in plant genetics offer practical solutions to close yield gaps and improve resource efficiency. However, these require a robust enabling environment, including improved market systems, access to credit, and secure land tenure. Moreover, strategic investment in higher education is essential to equip the next generation of agricultural leaders and researchers with the skills to innovate and adapt to the continent’s unique challenges​.


By leveraging transformative opportunities while addressing entrenched barriers, African agriculture
can transition from subsistence to sustainability. This transformation must prioritize integrated research and development, policy alignment, and cross-sector collaboration to meet growing food demands and enhance livelihoods. With bold and coordinated efforts, the continent can achieve resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food systems, contributing to long-term economic growth and environmental stewardship.​

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/aCeANFRJZa8

In this thoughtful presentation, Boris Shoshitaishvili’s N2 2024 explores the evolution of the noosphere concept from its origins with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky to its relevance in today’s world.

He examines how their hopeful vision of planetary unity and progress contrasts with the complex realities of the 21st century, including climate change, disinformation, and societal polarization. Boris highlights the need to rethink the noosphere’s narratives, advocating for a pluralistic approach that acknowledges global inequalities and opens up diverse pathways for the future. Through examples from philosophy, history, and contemporary theory, he reimagines the noosphere as a contested and dynamic space for political and ecological action.

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.

Boris Shoshitaishvili's presentation:

The Hemispheric Nous: Making Global Distinctions against the Backdrop of the Noosphere

The noosphere is, in part, the proposition that human affect, reason, and technology interact on a planetary scale to form a single sphere encompassing all of Earth: a sphere of nous, or shared mind. The concept implies spatial continuity, wholeness, coverage, and participation-a sphere being the geometrical figure whose every surface point is equidistant from its center. It suggests that each human being should have a comparable opportunity to shape this shared domain. Given these themes, pairing the noosphere with the term “Global South” is an important provocation. Among other associations, “Global South” focuses attention on inequities in the human world: between a set of communities located (mostly) in the southern hemisphere and another (mainly) in the northern hemisphere. This loosely geographical demarcation of South and North is a successor framework to the earlier system that divided the world into “developing” and “developed”. That binary itself followed the Cold War-era tripartite division of human communities into a “first”, “second”, and unaligned “third” world. In this talk, I consider how this history of attempts to represent sociopolitical and economic divisions in the human world exists in tension with the singular “sphericity” typically assumed in discussion of the noosphere. If the noosphere is an aspirational planetary vision, then injustices and inequities separating human communities are planetary fissures-divisions in planetary nous. I argue that to fully take account of these fissures requires rethinking nous in a different direction from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadksy's early theories of the noosphere.

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.

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

Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mhx1IsgprRU

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.

Boris Cyrulnik's Presentation at N2 2024

Phenomenon and Thought

When we compare brains in the living world, we see the development of a capacity to escape reality. A bird can migrate by processing only contextual information. A monkey can solve geometric problems and make tools. A human child also lives in an immediate context, but when language bursts forth around the age of three, the child can refer to things and events that are distant in time and space. It is only around the 6th-8th year, when the prefrontal neurons involved in anticipation connect with the limbic neurons involved in memory, that the child becomes capable of telling a story—the representation of an entity that is impossible to perceive, such as God, life after death, or the First Crusade. Thanks to its linguistic capacity for dual articulation, the child can tell other people what he thinks, and these others may think differently. Thus, a world of representations is created, detached from perceptible phenomena. This verbal world acts on the brain and creates a noetic world that we inhabit for our greatest happiness (art) or for our greatest misfortune (fanaticism).

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/

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.

Abre Fournier and Brian Swimme Presentation:

In Dialogue: From the Noosphere to the Metamind — Charting a New Era of Global Consciousness

Humanity is approaching a significant transformation—a shift in consciousness that will reshape our understanding of the self and our place in the universe. The Metamind—the emergence of the “conscious” dimension of the Noosphere —marks a pivotal event in our evolutionary journey, comparable in significance to the emergence of the human self or self-consciousness. In dialogue with Brian Thomas Swimme, who will discuss the evolution of reproductive imagination and the discovery of our participation in the larger order, Abre Fournier introduces her Metamind theory, which she puts forward as a radical leap in the evolution of human consciousness. By both engaging with a new noospheric ecology of planetary intelligence facilitated by advancements in technology and communication, and breaking through the conventional boundaries of the self by transcending individualistic perspectives of everyday consciousness, we are poised to enter a new era of expanded perception and awakened potential. The emergence of the Metamind, and its individuated form the Metaself, marks a pivotal shift in human consciousness at both personal and global scales. Indeed, moving to the conscious Metamind is the dawn of a profound transformation in the four billion years of biological and consciousness evolution. This presentation will emphasize how understanding and embracing this shift will be crucial for humanity and our planet’s ecosystem as we confront the real possibility of ecosystemic collapse. The talk will feature Abre G. Fournier speaking in person, with Brian T. Swimme joining via video stream.

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 the video: https://youtu.be/62LwFJV-cCI

In this talk, Sheila Hassell Hughes, COO of Human Energy, shares the organization's journey from its founding in 2017 by Ben Kacyra to its current initiatives, focusing on the noosphere. Human Energy works to inspire hope and purpose in a rapidly changing world through education, research, and dissemination, including events like the N2 conference. Sheila reflects on her personal connection to the mission, emphasizing its transformative impact on students and young people. She highlights the organization's tracks in education, ethics, and engagement while inviting participants to connect via Discord for continued collaboration.

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.

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/

What the video: https://youtu.be/tW7XXZYZ7vo