noosphere
nounUK /ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/ · CA, US /ˈnoʊ.əsfɪɚ/
Etymology Borrowed from French noosphère, from Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), developed and perhaps coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky, in analogy to atmosphere, biosphere etc. By surface analysis, nous (“mind”) + -sphere.
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The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
- 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 impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out. Three unpersons in one anthropomorphic noosphere.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 573:
- 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 the noosphere.1995, Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Shambhala, →ISBN, page 66:
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- […] Therefore, high capacity nodes will experience greater latency from the rest of the noosphere, and the intelligences that inhabit them will likely be more individualistic.2000 November 18, Alexandre Owen Muniz, “Individualism in Transhuman Society.”, in SL4 mailing list, message-ID <3A16FF3F.F030BA6A@xprt.net>:
- This creates a pattern of homesteading in the noosphere that rather resembles that of settlers spreading into a physical frontier—not random, but like a diffusion-limited fractal.2001 [1999], Eric S. Raymond, “Homesteading the Noosphere”, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 92:
- The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth.2012 October 4, Esther Inglis-Arkell, “What comes next after the Noosphere?”, in Gizmodo:
- Derived terms
- noospheric
- Related terms
- nous § Related terms, biosphere, ecosphere, neurosphere, Omega Point