Noosphere
The
noosphere can be seen as the "
sphere of
human thought" being derived from the
Greek 'nous' meaning '
mind' in the style of '
atmosphere' and '
biosphere'. Just as the biosphere is composed of all the
organisms on
Earth and their interactions, the noosphere is composed of all the interacting
minds and
memes on
Earth. The
word is also sometimes used to refer to a
transhuman consciousness arising from all these interactions - which those who have read
Teilhard de Chardin sometimes refer to as the
Omega Point, and consider the goal of
history.
History of this expression:
E. LeRoy's Les origines humaines et l'evolution de l'intelligence (1928)
Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
See also: Cyberspace
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