noosphere
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- noun
- /ˈnoʊəˌsfɪr/
- Specialized
- The noosphere is conceived of as a layer of thought-energy that envelops the planet in a similar manner to our atmosphere, but in an immaterial sense.
Examples
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Jose spells this out pretty well in Manifesto for the Noosphere.
Blog text (32) -
Cooperating collectively with nature, I think, is critical to establishing and strengthening a planetary telepathic field or noosphere on the Earth.
Blog text (32) -
The noos-- the noosphere is the sum of all consciousness.
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The noosphere?
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It just drifts out of the noosphere straight into their heads.
Fiction book (2000) -
Just as man feeds and is fed by the biosphere, the atmosphere, so it is our thoughts feed and are fed by the noosphere.
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And when we inhabit our virtual selves, we capture all of our history, because all that is virtual begins in the noosphere.
Blog text (26) -
With the development of life, there then gradually formed around the Earth a biosphere, and with the rise of Thinking Matter, Homo sapiens, the Earth was slowly covered by "thought," a noosphere.
Academic text (2015) -
It is a complex question that brooded into existence during my reading about the Noosphere from de Chardin, about how humanity will unite in a hyperpersonal unanimous unity.
Blog text (12) -
The noosphere represents the collective consciousness of humanity, connecting our thoughts and ideas globally.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Noosphere comes from the Greek roots nous ('mind') and sphaira ('sphere'). It means a 'sphere of mind' around the Earth, like an 'atmosphere' made of human thought and knowledge.