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“The microbial brain—gifted with long-range transport, data trading, genetic variants… and the ability to reinvent genomes—began its operations some 91 trillion bacterial generations before the birth of the Internet. Ancient bacteria, if they functioned like those today, had mastered the art of worldwide information exchange. …The earliest microorganisms would have used planet-sweeping currents of wind and water to carry the scraps of genetic code…”

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

Art , Birth , Water

“Is A=A useful? Does logic come in handy? Is math a magnificent symbolic system with which to comprehend what's around us? And is math based on A=A? Yes. Absolutely. But math and logic are… very, very simplified representations.”

Howard Bloom

When a Frog is a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

“From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to pull apart. From our devotion to higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From out commitment to ideals come our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor—murder, torture, genocide, and war.”

Howard Bloom

Who is Lucifer?
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)

Hate , War , History , Evil

“A collective learning machine achieves its feats by using five elements… (1) conformity enforcers; (2) diversity generators; (3) inner-judges; (4) resource shifters; and (5) intergroup tournaments.”

Howard Bloom

Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.4 From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions

Learning

“We must build a picture of the human soul that works. …a recognition that the enemy is within us and that Nature has placed it there. …for a reason. And we must understand that reason to outwit her.”

Howard Bloom

Who is Lucifer?
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)

Soul , Understanding , Nature

“When you and I were born, only one thing was certain about the rest of our lives: that you and I would someday die. Just as a trillion, trillion, trillion (1036) microorganisms, animals and plants have died before us. …A God who slaughters is no God at all. Or if he is… He is a God who must be stopped.”

Howard Bloom

The Problem with God: The Tale of a Twisted Confession
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

God , Animals

“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