noosphere

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of noosphere.
   alt-of, alternative
2. The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

“The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth.”

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