noosphere

noun
/ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/UK/ˈnoʊ.əsfɪɚ/CA

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.

  1. derived from νόος
  2. borrowed from noosphère

Definitions

  1. The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical…

    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.
    • […] 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for noosphere. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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