What is human energy? An investigation into life, experience and evolution | Michael Jacob | N2 2024

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.
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[@CosmicFoxTales]

Really enjoyed this talk, both in person and in secondary screening. Scientific, creative, and imaginative. I especially appreciate the multi-level approach to investigating and coming to know this phenomena that is some blend meta-aliveness, evolvability, and (creative) dark energy. Exploring these ideas at the cellular, neurological, and noospheric levels really helped deepen my understanding of this phenomena and by extension "human energy". I'm grateful to the poetic punctuation at the end too, it really help to tie it all together from an emotional perspective.
Is it possible that those investigating the noosphere together constitute are the self-reflective dimension of the noosphere itself? In the same way that our individual brain has various realms of activity: conscious activity, unconscious activity, and self-reflective conscious activity (to name a few). Could the noosphere follow a same form? Where there are realms of its activity that are conscious and unconscious, and there is a particular "spotlight" of self-reflective activity of minds in the noosphere that are dedicated to the conscious evolution of the noosphere. In this way, individuals working on the noosphere are articulations of the noosphere becoming self aware, and by extension, the planet becoming increasingly self aware or at least conscious to a new order of complexity.

[@Michael-nt1me]

...Human Energy Dynamics....
up through the ...biosphere, ecosphere, noosphere and technosphere....