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“In the Vienna of the late 1020s and 1930s there throve an internationally famous philosophical bunch called the logical positivists. …They said that a key ingredient of knowledge was "sense data," and proclaimed emphatically, in the words of… J. S. L. Gilmour, that sense data are "objective and unalterable."”

Howard Bloom

…Good guess, but no cigar!
Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.7 A Trip Through the Perception Factory

Knowledge , Sense

“Primordial communities of bacteria were elaborately interwoven by communication links. …These turned a colony into a collective processor… The resulting learning machine was so ingenious that Eshel Ben-Jacob has called its modern bacterial counterpart a "creative web."”

Howard Bloom

Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.1 Creative Nets in the Precambrian Era

Communication , Learning

“By the nineteenth century… new circumstances called for new conformity enforcers… The government locked you in a house of penitence—a penetentiary—where your feelings of remorse would theoretically pummel you without cease.”

Howard Bloom

Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.9 The Conformity Police

Feeling , Housing

“The real core of communication is what information theory's founder, Claude Shannon calls "meaning." And meaning is not covered in information theory.”

Howard Bloom

Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

Communication

“The greatest human evils are not those that individuals perform in private, the tiny transgressions against some arbitrary social standard we call sins. The ultimate evils are the mass murders that occur in revolution and war, the large-scale savageries that arise when one agglomeration of humans tries to dominate another: the deeds of the social group. …only group efforts can save us from the sporadic insanities of the group.”

Howard Bloom

The Clint Eastwood Conundrum
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)

War , Effort , Evil

“The particles of this cosmos rock and roll to their own self-generated beat. They defy the rules of arithmetic. Protons plus neutrons… equals music. Is this harmony… entropy? …No. …it's social behavior …riddled with form. And it's so antientropic that those in the scientific world who are trying desparately to rescue entropy… call it "negentropy."”

Howard Bloom

…Entropy is a very big assumption.
Heresy Number Three
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

World , Music , Behavior