The planetary consciousness: when universal history becomes a tool of collective lucidity

And if, for the first time in the history of the cosmos, a planet began to reflect on itself? This is the dizzying hypothesis of historian David Christian, founder of the Big History, who draws the broad lines of a unified narrative of the universe, matter and life, culminating with the emergence of a humanity capable of influencing the destiny of the Earth. At the crossroads of cosmology, ecology and philosophy, his thought invites us to recons…