(2005-03-03) Sirius Interviews Bloom

R U Sirius interviews Howard Bloom re his Global Brain book. According to Bloom, we are all part of an evolving intelligent system that started at the big bang... As with Kevin Kelly's writing on neo-biological civilization, Bloom's work opens us up to the possibility that the current mainstream food fight over evolutionary science versus intelligent design may be (as usual) missing the point.

I was put through an isolation experiment by getting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1988. By 1991, I could no longer speak. I was too weak to talk and sometimes I was too weak to look at a page in a magazine. And the illness slapped me with something else even more isolating. There is a stress-handling system in the brain or in the body somewhere. And when it goes, you wouldn't believe what happens. Everything hits you as a giant stress. Your system is no longer able to handle the level of the stress. That means that if your wife walks into the room and says something to you, you feel like you've just been shattered by a cannonball.