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Meaning of noosphere | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/

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

Deutsch Noosphäre
Français noosphère
Italiano noosfera
Русский ноосфе́ра

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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