Borrowed fromFrenchnoosphère, fromAncient Greekνόος(nóos,“mind, spirit”) +Ancient Greekσφαῖρα(sphaîra,“ball, globe”), developed and perhaps coined byPierre Teilhard de Chardin andVladimir Vernadsky, in analogy toatmosphere,biosphere etc. Bysurface analysis,nous(“mind”) +-sphere.
noosphere (pluralnoospheres)
- Thesphere of humanreason,thought, andconsciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
1980,Anthony Burgess,Earthly Powers,page573:I used to have a pretty clear idea of God. Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonalnoosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out. Three unpersons in one anthropomorphicnoosphere.
1995,Ken Wilber,Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Shambhala,→ISBN,page66:Finally, human beings reproduce themselves mentally through exchanges with cultural and symbolic environments[…] These relational exchanges are embedded in the traditions and institutions of a particular society in such a way that that society can reproduce itself on a cultural level, can reproduce itself in thenoosphere.
2000 November 18, Alexandre Owen Muniz, “Individualism in Transhuman Society.”, inSL4mailing list[1], message-ID <3A16FF3F.F030BA6A@xprt.net>:[…] Therefore, high capacity nodes will experience greater latency from the rest of thenoosphere, and the intelligences that inhabit them will likely be more individualistic.
2001 [1999],Eric S. Raymond, “Homesteading the Noosphere”, inThe Cathedral and the Bazaar, O'Reilly,→ISBN,page92:This creates a pattern of homesteading in thenoosphere that rather resembles that of settlers spreading into a physical frontier—not random, but like a diffusion-limited fractal.
2012 October 4, Esther Inglis-Arkell, “What comes next after the Noosphere?”, inGizmodo[2]:Thenoosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth.
noosphere, theoretical stage of evolutionary development
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