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

In this compelling presentation, Montassir Sakhi revisits Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the noosphere through the lens of the Global South. He explores the tensions between universalism, colonial legacies, and contemporary inequalities, emphasizing the urgent need to address borderization and systemic division. By integrating critical perspectives, Sakhi challenges us to envision a truly unified human spirit grounded in justice and inclusion.

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.

Montassir Sakhi's presentation:

"Raison d’État" and the collective conscience: thinking about borders from the perspective of the noosphere

How can the theories and concepts developed in the noosphere paradigm help us to rethink the tragedy that is currently taking place around the closing of the borders of the global North? More precisely, how can global concepts that are based on the idea of humanist and universalist reason help us today to question border policies that are based on repressive measures?

This talk analyses how concepts such as "the new man" (Fanon, 1961), "oceanic feeling" (Freud, 1930) and “collective consciousness” (de Chardin, 1955) are challenged by the new "Raison d'État" (Foucault, 1978) that has emerged since the birth of modernity. The aim is to see how this Raison is reinvented in post-colonial times through the phenomenon of the border and its central mechanisms (visas, detention centres, expulsions, etc.). In the work of the three thinkers mentioned above, and in an approach that could be called "revolutionary noosphere", the aim is then to rediscover an awareness of and an overcoming of public policies that are both national and imperial, based on the practice of borderisation. This talk will provide an opportunity to draw on ethnographic research currently being carried out in Morocco with families and groups at risk of disappearance in Europe's borderlands, mainly the Mediteranean Sea. Their experiences will be used to describe both the repression of Europe's borders and the solidarity forged in collective struggles. This talk will show how these solidarities today constitute spaces that can be compared to the "collective consciousness" to which the noosphere invites us.

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/kQVo-1YGKnY

Michael Pirson Presentation:

The Business of the Noosphere

What if the business of business wasn’t business but the Noosphere? What does that even mean? Business has been a driving force of the economy, politics, and society for better or worse. In this session we explore the paradigmatic foundations of business and organizations at large to become a lever of Noospheric progress. We also highlight the possibility and potential of leadership of business and organizations to create a world that works for everyone.

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/5p6sZ_TNvcs

Discover how human energy, creativity, and the Noosphere are interconnected in Michael Jacob's compelling N2 2024 presentation.

Drawing on the visionary work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jacob explores the concept of "meta-aliveness" and how our individual and collective energy drives conscious evolution. From the hidden creativity of cells and brains to the transformative power of imagination, this talk bridges science, poetry, and mystery to illuminate humanity's role in shaping the future. Watch to learn how embracing the unknown can unlock the noosphere's full potential.


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.

Michael Jacob's presentation:

What is human energy? An investigation into life, experience and evolution

Human energy is the vital link between our personal, individual lives and the living, evolutionary potential of the noosphere. This presentation will move beyond abstract conceptualizations of human energy that describe it as a physical, biological, and moral force, to incorporate experiential knowledge in the service of conscious evolution.

Conscious evolution is how the noosphere enables evolvability: the capacity to increase the probability of an evolutionary outcome. As a fuel for evolvability, human energy reflects a natural extension of biological processes that utilize surplus metabolic energy for adaptive evolution. This latent energy leverages serendipitous interactions within biochemical, neural, and social networks to constellate innovative pathways. As a result of this creative energy, organisms are more than literally “alive” (surviving) but are “meta-alive,” (flourishing and evolvable). This presentation explores the radical hypothesis of human energy: when we feel metaphorically alive, the noosphere is biologically alive.

Nonetheless, biological descriptions are insufficient to capture the felt experience of human energy. Making meaning of this experience, which often takes the form of a vital calling in one’s life, requires biology and poetry. What emerges from this creative process cannot be predicted, but is nourished through the energy of the arts, music, and literature (the humanities). I propose that through our human energy, we are creatively called to participate in the noosphere and awaken it to life. This work and its scholarly support requires us to build a transdisciplinary bridge between the biological sciences and the humanities.

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/hoFR86Tzemo

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.

Marouane Jaouat's Presentation:

Awe and Wonder: Gateways to Planetary Consciousness

In an age of accelerating connectivity, the transformative power of awe and wonder emerges as a crucial catalyst for the Noosphere's development. These peak experiences - moments that dissolve our ordinary sense of self and connect us to something larger - are essential drivers in the evolution of collective consciousness. As humanity faces unprecedented global challenges, these states of expanded awareness serve not just as individual transformation tools, but as amplifiers of collective intelligence. Cultivating such experiences becomes vital for bridging polarized narratives and co-creating a new "Third Story" - one that could foster the emergence of planetary consciousness necessary for our collective survival and flourishing.

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/V-3JzGjJPCs

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.

Johan Bollen Presentations

Fear and loathing in the network: the paradox of social media and collective well-being

Modern life is marked by a strange paradox: we are now more socially connected than ever which is an important condition for human thriving, yet the prevalence of mental health disorders has increased sharply. Mental health disorders are now one of the world’s leading causes of disability. This is particularly the case for our youth. Suicide rates for young adults are now considered very high, a source of great concern. How can the most socially connected generation since the dawn of humanity also be its most anxious and depressed? In my talk I will revisit some of the evidence pointing towards the involvement of social media in this paradox. While social media platforms provide an unprecedented opportunity to establish meaningful social connections across geographical and socio-cultural boundaries, they are marked by several characteristics which may drive the present rise in mental health disorders. Since young adults are online practically continuously, they may be most exposed to these effects. I will discuss how network effects such as assortativity and the friendship paradox may conspire against our mental health. In addition, I will look at the interaction between cognitive distortions and the psycho-linguistic effects of online social networks. Evidence is pointing towards online social networks serving as vectors for the diffusion and propagation of a mode of thinking and communicating that is quite common among individuals with internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety. We have analyzed large-scale text databases and shown marked increases of markers of cognitive distortions in books and other content. Finally, I will highlight some fascinating relations between cognitive distortions and societal polarization which may be fueling political and societal dysfunction in the West.

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/