Historical Conceptions
Francis Heylighen reviewed the history of the concept and its usage. In this work he distinguished four perspectives on the global brain, organicism, encyclopedism", emergentism" and "evolutionary cybernetics", that developed relatively independently but that now appear to come together into a single conception.
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