Introduction

[Manuel]

Does evolution have a direction? Many biologists deny it, but if we measure the amount of information available to each living being during the history of life, we can see a steady increase. This information was initially only genetic. In animals, a new way of storing it appeared, the nervous system. Finally, with man and only with man, cultural information appeared.Human society seems to be building, since a few decades, a new super-organism, in which the role of the nervous system is represented by the Internet. However, that nervous system has no head. Does that mean we are going towards the fifth level of evolution? This book attempts to answer this question and argues that the fifth level is not a modern idea, but has somehow been known for two thousand years.