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| The '''noosphere''' can be seen as the "[[sphere of knowledge|sphere]] of human thought" being derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] νους ("[[nous]]") meaning "[[mind]]" in the style of "[[Earth's atmosphere|atmosphere]]" and "[[biosphere]]". In the original theory of [[Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky|Vernadsky]], the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the [[geosphere]] (inanimate matter) and the [[biosphere]] (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human [[cognition]] fundamentally transforms the biosphere. In contrast to the conceptions of the [[Gaia]] theorists, or the promoters of [[cyberspace]], Vernadsky's noosphere is not something that is just now coming into being, or will emerge in the future; it arrived with the birth of the first cognitive human being, and is manifested throughout the geosphere and biosphere in the form of human intervention, which principally takes the form of physical economic development of the planet.
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| The word is also sometimes used to refer to a [[transhuman]] [[consciousness]] emerging from the interactions of human minds. This is the view proposed by the theologian [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]], who added that the noosphere is evolving towards an ever greater integration, culminating in the [[Omega Point]]—which he saw as the ultimate goal of history.
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| A somewhat different approach focuses on "sustainability," and begins to look at this concept in terms of "co-evolution" [Norgaard, 1994].
| | The noosphere can be seen as the "sphere of human thought" being derived from the Greek νους ("nous") meaning "mind" in the style of "atmosphere" and "biosphere". |
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| History of this expression:
| | It is often used in connection with cyberspace and the internet, seen as materializations of it. |
| * E. LeRoy's ''Les origines humaines et l'evolution de l'intelligence'' ([[1928]])
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| * [[Vladimir I. Vernadsky]] ([[1863]]-[[1945]])
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| * [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] ([[1881]]-[[1955]])
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| The software used at [[PlanetMath]] is named "'''Noösphere'''".
| | For more information see the Wikipedia article at |
| | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere |
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Ideosphere]]
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| * [[Blood Music]]
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| * [[Gilles Deleuze]]
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| * [[Next nature]]
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| * [[Collective consciousness]]
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| * [[Richard Bucke]]
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| * [[Buckminster Fuller]]
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| * [[Gerald Heard]]
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| * [[Hazel Henderson]]
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| * [[Arthur M. Young]]
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| * [[William Irwin Thompson]]
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| * [[Collective unconsciousness]]
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| * [[Global brain]]
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| * [[Cosmotheism]]
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| * [[Cyberspace]]
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| * [[Technological singularity]]
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| * [[Emergy Synthesis]]
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| * [[Memetics]]
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| * [[Pantheism]]
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| * [[Gaia Theory|Gaia]]
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| * [[Noetic]]
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| * [[Carl Jung]]
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| == External links ==
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| * http://noosphere.cc/noosphere.html
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| * http://lawoftime.org/research/engineering.html Noosphere II: Planetary Engineering Project
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| * http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ Global Consiousness project at Princeton
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| * http://transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/declaration/
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| * http://www.odeo.com/channel/105280 "Just Say Yes to the Noosphere", a Podcast from Stanford Law School
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| == References ==
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| *Paul R. Samson and David Pitt (eds.)(1999), ''The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change''. ISBN 0415166446
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| *[http://fis.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/fis96/programme.html "The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information"], ''World Futures'', Volumes 49 (3-4) & 50 (1-4) 1997, Special Issue
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| *[[Eric S. Raymond|Raymond, Eric]] (2000), "[[Homesteading the Noosphere]]", [http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homesteading/ available online.]
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| *Norgaard, R. B. (1994). ''Development betrayed: the end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future''. London; New York, Routledge. ISBN 0415068622
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