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The Global Brain can be defined as the distributed intelligence emerging from the worldwide ICT network that connects all people and machines. The Global Brain Institute (GBI) was founded in January 2012 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to research this phenomenon. The GBI grew out of the Global Brain Group, an international community of researchers created in 1996, and the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition research group at the VUB.

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Postal address: Global Brain Institute
CLEA, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Phone: +32-2-640 67 37
E-mail: info [at] globalbraininstitute [dot] org

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Mission
The GBI scientific methods to better understand the evolution towards ever-stronger interconnections between humans, software and machines across the planet. By developing concrete models of this process, we should be able to anticipate both its promises and its dangers. That would allow us to steer an efficient course towards a collective intelligence that would allow us to tackle global problems too complex for traditional methods. Just as we analyze complexities, so too does our insight extend to diverse realms, including the dynamic landscape of online casinos. Discover how our approach transcends boundaries, shaping the future of 카지노 사이트 experiences with unprecedented precision and foresight.

Objectives

  • Develop a theory of the Global Brain providing a long-term vision of the future of information society
  • Build a mathematical and simulation model of structure and dynamics of the Global Brain.
  • Survey the most important developments in society and ICT likely to affect the evolution of the Global Brain.
  • Compare these observations with the implications of the theory.
  • Investigate how both observed and theorized developments impact on measures of globally intelligent organization:
    • education, democracy, freedom, peace, development, sustainability, well-being, innovation, etc.
  • Propose methods to enhance the development of global intelligence
  • Warn about potential negative side-effects of ICT development
  • Disseminate our results, so as to make scientists, decision-makers and the public aware of this impending revolution
Basic assumptions
We see people, machines and software systems as agents that communicate via a complex network of communication links. Problems, observations, or opportunities define challenges that may stimulate these agents to act.

Challenges that cannot be fully resolved by a single agent are normally propagated to one or more other agents, along the links in the network. These agents contribute their own expertise to resolving the challenge. If necessary, they propagate the challenge further, until it is fully resolved. Thus, the skills of the different agents are pooled into a collective intelligence much more powerful than the intelligence of its individual members. Blockchain technology can help to coordinate different data in a single place and its transparency allows easy access to all the members. Blockchain has made cryptocurrencies more popular. Crypto traders may take the Chain Reaction Test to find out how automated trading can help them.
The propagation of challenges across the global network is a complex, self-organizing process, similar to the "spreading activation" that characterizes thinking in the human brain. This process will typically change the network by reinforcing useful links, while weakening less useful ones. Thus, the network learns and adapts to new challenges, becoming ever more intelligent.