Bloom, Howard,  1943- <br/><br/>
Global brain :  the evolution of mass mind from the big bang to the 21st century / 
Howard Bloom 
 - New York :  John Wiley & Sons,  2000       
 - x, 370 p. ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-352) and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: Biology, Evolution, and the Global Brain 1<br/>1 Creative Nets in the Precambrian Era 14<br/>2 Networking in Paleontology's "Dark Ages" 20<br/>3 Embryonic Meme 29<br/>4 From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions: Complex Adaptive Systems in Jurassic Days 39<br/>5 Mammals and the Further Rise of Mind 49<br/>6 Threading a New Tapestry 57<br/>7 Trip through the Perception Factory 64<br/>8 Reality Is a Shared Hallucination 71<br/>9 Conformity Policy 81<br/>10 Diversity Generators: The Huddle and the Squabble - Group Fission 91<br/>11 End of the Ice Age and the Rise of Urban Fire 100<br/>12 Weave of Conquest and the Genes of Trade 109<br/>13 Greece, Miletus, and Thales: The Birth of the Boundary Breakers 121<br/>14 Sparta and Baboonery: The Guesswork of Collective Mind 129<br/>15 Pluralism Hypothesis: Athens' Underside 141<br/>16 Pythagoras, Subcultures, and Psycho-Bio-Circuitry 151<br/>17 Swiveling Eyes and Pivoting Minds: The Pull of Influence Attractors 164<br/>18 Outstretch, Upgrade, and Irrationality: Science and the Warps of Mass Psychology 178<br/>19 Kidnap of Mass Mind: Fundamentalism, Spartanism, and the Games Subcultures Play 191<br/>20 Interspecies Global Mind 207<br/>21 Conclusion: The Reality of the Mass Mind's Dreams: Terraforming the Cosmos 217<br/>Notes 225<br/>Bibliography 291<br/>Acknowledgments 353<br/>Index 355 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0471295841 9780471295846 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cerebro --Evolución<br/>Evolución humana <br/>Psicología genética
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP 376  / B655g 2000