The Library
of Consciousness

Strange as it may sound, the universe is aware of itself—through each and every one of us. Planet Earth has given birth to something astonishing: a mysterious form of matter capable of self-awareness. And this evolutionary breakthrough isn’t in the least bit done. It’s just getting started.

You can feel it too, can’t you? That persistent itch in the back of your mind, so often ignored because of pressing day-to-day survival struggles—every now and then it surfaces, taps your shoulder, and holds your attention just long enough to remind you of the astonishing miracle of existence, of being, of consciousness, and the sheer potential bottled up inside of it.

Well, that’s what The Library is about. Its virtual aisles are filling up (admittedly at a glacial pace) with various perspectives on this wondrous phenomenon.

However! Remember to remain grounded and humble. The moment you get too serious about all this, you’ll miss the point. Consume the information as you would music, not gospel; as a neo-Buddhist sci-fi romp through the embryonic Gaian hive mind as it awakens and comes to terms with its own existence. Play with it! Have fun! Tease it a little! But don’t for a moment delude yourself into believing that it’s anything other than entertainment. Just rummage around, sync up your neural net with some far-out intellectual artistry, and admire mental sculptures of cosmic proportions at the edge of human understanding.

Welcome to the collective! (Don’t worry, nobody’s in charge.) We’re so thrilled you’re here :)

P.S. Visit www.organism.earth for a meditative audiovisual experience of these ideas.

P.P.S. Have a suggestion? The Library is actively looking for female and POC viewpoints on this subject matter, as they are abysmally underrepresented. Feel free to contact u/CuratorOfTheLibrary on Reddit with your pointers and recommendations.

• The Door Of Perception Blog
• PhilPapers
• Systems Community of Inquiry
• Infinite Backrooms
• The Well
• Holon City
• Road to Omega
• Collective Intelligence Research Institute
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Citizen’s Handbook
• Principia Cybernetica
• Zynx Securities
• Hexen 2.0
• Human Energy Project
• Emergence Magazine
• Uutter
• Santa Fe Institute
• We Are Hosts For Memes
• Great Thinkers and Visionaries
• The Consilience Project
• Are.na
• Monoskop
• Visualizing ISBN-Space
• Arcosanti
• Whole Earth Index
• Si Network
• A More Play-Full Future
• All Roads Lead to Philosophy
• Qualia Computing
• History of Philosophy Summarized & Visualized
• Essentia Foundation
• The Global Brain Institute
• Anna’s Archive
• Taming the Technosphere
• Project Liminality
• Emergent by Design
• Day to have a Day