Howard Bloom
From Free net encyclopedia
Howard Bloom is an author, a publicist, and the founder of two new fields, mass behavior and paleopsychology. He is the founder of several scientific endeavors involving evolutionary psychology, including the International Paleopsychology Project. He is working to establish omnology as a new field as well.
Contents |
Career
Early career
Between 1968 and 1988, Bloom worked in business and mass media. He edited and art-directed an experimental graphics and literary magazine that won two National Academy of Poets prizes. He worked with major TV and film companies including Sony, NBC-TV, and Disney, and was an advisor for the venture that became MTV.
Current endeavors
Bloom is a faculty member of The Graduate Institute's Conscious Evolution and Organizational Leadership programs. He is founder of the Big Bang Tango Media Lab. He also founded the Group Selection Squad, a team of forty scientists who support group selection over commonly accepted Neo-Darwinian theories. His campaign was supported by David Sloan Wilson, an important evolutionary scientist.
In theoretical physics, he is the co-author and supporter of the hidden-time approach to quantum theory, developed by Pavel Kurakin and George Malinetsky, of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Bloom is a founding board member of both the Epic of Evolution Society and The Darwin Project, and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, The International Society of Human Ethology, and the Academy of Political Science.
Writings
Bloom has written three books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, and How I Accidentally Started the Sixties. As of 2005, Bloom had two papers in physics publications: "The Xerox Effect: On the Importance of Pre-Biotic Evolution" [1] and "Conversation (dialog) Model of Quantum Transitions" [2] at arXiv.org.
Bloom's articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Wired, The Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, Omni, The Independent Scholar, Across Species Comparisons, Psychopathology, New Ideas in Psychology and in two book series: Research in Biopolitics and the Disinformation Company's trilogy: You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and Abuse Your Illusions.
Recognition
Bloom has been featured in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Criticism
Bloom has been called racist against Arabs and other people of Middle-Eastern descent because of his book The Lucifer Principle.[3]. However the criticsm misquotes Bloom in several respects. Bloom criticizes "certain Islamic societies" not all. He footnotes his quotes from the Koran and says Islam has its positive sides. He also says "Christians by the millions would take upon themselves the privilege of killing, torturing and raping those who weren't members of their triumphant creed." (page 176)
External links
- HowardBloom.net - 'Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind' (Howard Bloom's homepage)
- HowardBloom.net - 'Instant Evolution. The Influence of the City on Human Genes: A Speculative Case', Howard Bloom, New Ideas in Psychology, vol 19, no 3, December 2001, p 203-220 (first presented May 11, 2000)
- BigBangTango.net - 'Big Bang Tango Media Lab'
- EntelechyJournal.com - 'The Roots of Omnology: an academic base for the promiscuously curious, a discipline that concentrates on seeing the patterns that emerge when one views all the sciences and the arts at once', Howard Bloom
- PhysicaPlus.org - 'Xerox Effect: On the Importance of Pre-biotic Evolution', Howard Bloom, PhysicaPlus (October 1, 2004)
Audio clip
- Sursumcorda.com (ram file) - Audio interview with Howard Bloom