#Supermind john michael series#

#Supermind john michael series#

Imagine: Instead of a world in which a company designs and prints two versions of World Series t-shirts so they’re prepared no matter which team wins that year, the shirts are co-created when an Astros or a Phillies fan sitting in the stands of the stadium during the last few minutes of a championship game livestreams the winning run with his friend who suggests they create a t-shirt commemorating the victory. Hyperconnectivity, not only human-to-human but also human-to-machine, is already creating what Malone calls a “Supermind”-a collection of humans, and now machines, working together in a way that appears to be intelligent.

Professor Tom Malone of MIT wrote, “For a long time, the most important contribution of computers won’t be artificial intelligence it will be hyperconnectivity-connecting human minds to each other in new ways and at unprecedented scales.” And people are able to communicate and collaborate with machines ever more seamlessly. Because of advancements like 5G connectivity, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Web 3.0, people can more freely co-create together. But technologies today are enabling a higher order of creativity. Historically, researchers have studied human creativity, the process occurring between the ears, within the brain, of a creative individual. Roger Beaty, one of the authors of the study, concluded, “People who are more creative can simultaneously engage brain networks that don’t typically work together.” Human-to-human and human-to-machine collaboration In other words, creativity does not come from any particular location in the mind but is activated by the connection of subnetworks. The executive control network, which helps keep us focused on useful ideas while discarding those that aren’t important.

The salience network, which sorts through ideas to spot important information.

The default mode network, which is involved in memory and mental stimulation, responsible for imagination and brainstorming.

Instead, creativity happens when the following three different regions of the brain-subnetworks which do not normally communicate-work together: Ultimately, they found that no such part of the brain existed. They were looking for the parts of the brain that are activated during creative acts. Creativity, as defined in the study, is “the ability to come up with new and useful ideas.” To test it, researchers hooked participants up to fMRI scanners and had them perform both creative and non-creative tasks.

In 2018, a famous Harvard study sought to understand which parts of the brain are responsible for creativity.