Sentences with word «noosphere»

The notion of noosphere, a «planet of the mind,» remains an untested hypothesis.
From Darwin through Havel, there's been a vision of breaking down tribal and other barriers and enveloping the planet in what some have called noosphere.
Some variant on noosphere is clearly nigh.
To me, the laying of this cable — financed on the strength of the bandwidth demand created by the World Cup — is perhaps the single biggest surprise and source of excitement I've had all year — showing just how powerful a little connectedness can be, initially for commerce but soon (at least to my mind) for education and true connectedness, of the kind described by the word noosphere.
Seeger then talked about the role of the Web in fostering progress, essentially articulating one facet of that concept I've taken to calling knowosphere (an intentional echo of noosphere).
, the animating spirit) and speaking of the global «noosphere» (Teilhard 1959).
In post-war France and later the rest of Europe and America, Teilhard de Chardin brought these ideas back for a while by resurrecting the Greek notion of nous (the conceiving and communicating mind — opposed to pneuma, the animating spirit) and speaking of the global «noosphere» (Teilhard 1959).
Amongst the various forms of psychic interaction which animate the noosphere, therefore, it is the «intercentric» energies that we have above all to identify, to harness and to develop if we would make an effective contribution to the progress of evolution within ourselves.
In fact, by the laws of development it is impossible to do so, for, inevitably, a true vital idea such as Teilhard's, as soon as it emerges in the noosphere, begins to complexity or differentiate itself.
Man is still reduced to an instance of an animal instead of seeing the phenomenon of reflection as giving birth to a radically new dimension, that of the thinking layer or the noosphere.
In order to fulfill itself, memory had to double itself by tending to the other direction — forward — and in the process a new space - time dimension was born, the noosphere, in which the future is attained by the foresight of reason.
In another sense, it is also true to say that existence precedes essence, and the metaphysical view is consequently wrong in denying it, for essence in this case is defined within the world of interpersonal relationships, within the world of history and human society, within the world of reason itself which Teilhard would call the noosphere.
The difference between the spinning of a spider's web (for example) and human technology is that the latter came to depend increasingly on human thought — or what Teilhard de Chardin called the evolution of the noosphere.
Teilhard de Chardin identified the arrival of the noosphere as a transition in the evolutionary process just as far - reaching as the evolution of life out of a non-living planet.
Teilhard de Chardin calls this level the noosphere, and the process of creativity, that of noogenesis.
When I use the term «faith» I am referring to this stance of adventurous, risk - filled openness that would allow such a possibility to take hold of the noosphere without in any way disrupting its «normal» forms of interaction.
He opens us up to the possibility that the noosphere, dominated by the phenomenon of intercommunication among personal, cognitive centers may constitute a new «lower» dimension that could conceivably be taken up into a «higher» one.
Is it possible, then, that there is yet a further, transcendent integrating and ordering influence operative in nature, one that «orders» the lower dimensions including the noosphere without disrupting their apparent continuity?
Evolution has now advanced into the «noosphere,» the domain of man and consciousness.
As Teilhard insists, there is no reason for us to think that the present status of the noosphere constitutes the end of the evolutionary process.
While using little of the traditional language of resurrection and judgment, Teilhard's figure of an ecstasy in the noosphere retains two essential elements in the doctrine of the resurrection of the body.
Teilhard's renunciation of the traditional means of socialization led him to a theological vision of the future in which the noosphere does not succumb to a Marxian process of atrophy and dehistoricization.
Awareness of this divine action will increase until the noosphere, without being consummated, will have evolved into what Teilhard called the theosphere.
Teilhard sounds one of his rare biblical notes when he admits the possibility of a gigantic rift in the noosphere between believers in Omega and unbelievers.
In Marxism the law of dialectical conflict atrophies in an unintroduced period of static harmony; and in Teilhard, cooperation in grace turns to absolute reliance upon God's power to sustain and perfect that which has been germinating in the noosphere.
The penultimate phase of the noosphere, as predicted by Teilhard, corresponds in principle and in many details with Karl Marx's predicted communist society of the future.
In a future which closes upon God, death is the last historical act of the individual and the noosphere.
The communist future will appear as the denouement of history and historical dialectics, but the development of the noosphere, because it is essentially Christian, retains its motive principle; for even in its extreme phase, the noosphere's perfection lies ahead of it.
Human rationality gradually creates a web of thought, symbolized by the vast communications network that covers the earth, which Teilhard called the noosphere.
The Incarnation is the source of man's understanding of this added transcendent dimension, for it points to a reality beyond the immediate grasp of the noosphere: the union of God with his creation.
15 Teilhard, for his part, suggests that when evolution is viewed as the process in which the consciousness within matter emerges and is transmuted into Spirit, natural history is seen to have a different direction — or rather, since we are on the level of the noosphere, a different purpose.
Together these two energies are responsible for moving the evolutionary history of the world from geosphere to biosphere to noosphere.
The universe is «unconscious» according to this conviction in all of the evolutionary phases preceding the emergence of the noosphere.1
You don't know this yet, but they're coming to get you, in about a week, in a special ambulance, so they can upload me into the noosphere from your microdot.
«They told me — this research group — that they can upload people into the noosphere like any old packet of data.
But the world around us is evolving, mankind, society, noosphere are developing.
In a final gesture of future self - actualization through time - space readjustment, James has produced an editioned calendar, which marks the beginning of the exhibition with excerpts from the Arguelles text promoting a 13:20 cosmological, anti-Gregorian reform meant to lead humanity to the noosphere.
It's that idea of the noosphere, that the sum of all knowledge will unlock the secrets of the universe and that idea of (Pierre Teilhard) de Chardin that building knowledge will bring us up to god.»
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