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December 15, 2023

The noosphere (alternate spelling noösphere) is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky, and philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Vernadsky defined the noosphere as the new state of the biosphere[1] and described as the planetary "sphere of reason".[2][3] The noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development, that of humankind's rational activities.[4]

The word is derived from the Greek νόος ("nous, mind, reason") and σφαῖρα ("sphere"), in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere".[5] The concept cannot be accredited to a single author. The founding authors Vernadsky and de Chardin developed two related but starkly different concepts, the former grounded in the geological sciences, and the latter in theology. Both conceptions of the noosphere share the common thesis that together human reason and scientific thought have created, and will continue to create, the next evolutionary geological layer. This geological layer is part of the evolutionary chain.[6][7] Second-generation authors, predominantly of Russian origin, have further developed the Vernadskian concept, creating the related concepts: noocenosis and noocenology.[8]

Founding authors edit

The term noosphere was first used in the publications of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922[9] in his Cosmogenesis.[10] Vernadsky was most likely introduced to the term by a common acquaintance, Édouard Le Roy, during a stay in Paris.[11] Some sources claim Édouard Le Roy actually first proposed the term.[12] Vernadsky himself wrote that he was first introduced to the concept by Le Roy in his 1927 lectures at the College of France, and that Le Roy had emphasized a mutual exploration of the concept with Teilhard de Chardin.[13] According to Vernadsky's own letters, he took Le Roy's ideas on the noosphere from Le Roy's article "Les origines humaines et l’evolution de l’intelligence", part III: "La noosphere et l’hominisation", before reworking the concept within his own field, biogeochemistry.[14] The historian Bailes concludes that Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin were mutual influences on each other, as Teilhard de Chardin also attended the Vernadsky's lectures on biogeochemistry, before creating the concept of the noosphere.[15]

An account stated that Le Roy and Teilhard were not aware of the concept of biosphere in their noosphere concept and that it was Vernadsky who introduced them to this notion, which gave their conceptualization a grounding on natural sciences.[16] Both Teilhard de Chardin and Vernadsky base their conceptions of the noosphere on the term 'biosphere', developed by Edward Suess in 1875.[17] Despite the differing backgrounds, approaches and focuses of Teilhard and Vernadsky, they have a few fundamental themes in common. Both scientists overstepped the boundaries of natural science and attempted to create all-embracing theoretical constructions founded in philosophy, social sciences and authorized interpretations of the evolutionary theory.[17] Moreover, both thinkers were convinced of the teleological character of evolution. They also argued that human activity becomes a geological power and that the manner by which it is directed can influence the environment.[18] There are fundamental differences in the two conceptions.

Concept edit

In the theory of 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 emerges at the point where humankind, through the mastery of nuclear processes, begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements. It is a study area of the Global Consciousness Project.[19]

For de Chardin, the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the Earth. As mankind organizes itself in more complex social networks, the higher the noosphere will grow in awareness. This concept extends Teilhard's Law of Complexity/Consciousness, the law describing the nature of evolution in the universe. Teilhard argued the noosphere is growing towards an even greater integration and unification, culminating in the Omega Point - an apex of thought/consciousness - which he saw as the goal of history.

One of the original aspects of the noosphere concept deals with evolution. Henri Bergson, with his L'évolution créatrice (1907), was one of the first to propose evolution is "creative" and cannot necessarily be explained solely by Darwinian natural selection.[citation needed] L'évolution créatrice is upheld, according to Bergson, by a constant vital force which animates life and fundamentally connects mind and body, an idea opposing the dualism of René Descartes. In 1923, C. Lloyd Morgan took this work further, elaborating on an "emergent evolution" which could explain increasing complexity (including the evolution of mind). Morgan found many of the most interesting changes in living things have been largely discontinuous with past evolution. Therefore, these living things did not necessarily evolve through a gradual process of natural selection. Rather, he posited, the process of evolution experiences jumps in complexity (such as the emergence of a self-reflective universe, or noosphere), in a sort of qualitative punctuated equilibrium. Finally, the complexification of human cultures, particularly language, facilitated a quickening of evolution in which cultural evolution occurs more rapidly than biological evolution. Recent understanding of human ecosystems and of human impact on the biosphere have led to a link between the notion of sustainability with the "co-evolution"[20] and harmonization of cultural and biological evolution.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Pitt, David; Samson, Paul R. (2012). The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 6. ISBN 978-0415166447.
  2. ^ Yanshin, A. L.; Yanshina, F.T.: Preface; in Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich: Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon, Moscow, Nongovernmental Ecological V.I.Vernadsky Foundation, 1997, (Original: Научная мысль как планетное явление, translated by B.A.Starostin) p. 6.
  3. ^ See: Моисеев, Никита Николаевич: Человек и ноосфера, Молодая гвардия, 1990. (Translation of Russian Title: Moiseyev, Nikita Nikolaievich: Man and the Noosphere) 26 с.
  4. ^ Петрашов В.В. Начала нооценологии: наука о восстановлении экосистем и создании нооценозов. - М., 1998. (Translation of Russian Title: Petrashov, V.V.: The Beginning of Noocenology: Science of Ecosystem Restoration and the Creation of Nocenoses) 6 c.
  5. ^ "[...]he defined noosphere as the 'thinking envelope of the biosphere' and the 'conscious unity of souls'" David H. Lane, 1996, "The phenomenon of Teilhard: prophet for a new age" p. 4
  6. ^ See Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich: Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon, Moscow, Nongovernmental Ecological V.I.’Vernadsky Foundation, 1997, (Original: Научная мысль как планетное явление, translated by B.A.Starostin) 1997.
  7. ^ See Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre: Der Mensch im Kosmos, München, C.H Beck, 1959, (Original: Le Phénomène humain, 1955. English Title: The Phenomenon of Man, 1961).
  8. ^ Петрашов, 1998. 6 c.
  9. ^ In 1922, Teilhard wrote in an essay with the title 'Hominization': "And this amounts to imagining, in one way or another, above the animal biosphere a human sphere, a sphere of reflection, of conscious invention, of conscious souls (the noosphere, if you will)" (1966, p. 63)It was a neologism employing the Greek word noos for "mind". (Teilhard de Chardin, "Hominization" (1923), "The Vision of the Past" pages 71, 230, 261)
  10. ^ Tambov State Technical University: The Prominent Russian Scientist V. I. Vernadsky (Russian)
  11. ^ See: Fuchs-Kittowski, K.; Krüger, P.: The Noosphere Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir I. Vernadsky in the Perspective of Information and of World Wide Communication; in World Futures: Vol. 50, No. 1-4, 1997. p. 768.
  12. ^ Моисеев, 1990. 24 c.
  13. ^ Original Citation in: Вернадский, Владимир:Несколько слов о ноосфере,Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2018. (Translation of Russian Title: Vernadsky, Vladimir: Some Words on the Noosphere) Aphorism 11. (Original Published 1944. Citation from Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2018 here.
  14. ^ Fuchs-Kittowski, K.; Krüger, P.: The Noosphere Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir I. Vernadsky in the Perspective of Information and of World Wide Communication; in World Futures: Vol. 50, No. 1-4, 1997. p. 769.
  15. ^ Bailes, Kendall E.: Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions - V.I. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945, Bloomigton, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. p. 162.
  16. ^ Danilov-Danil'yan, Victor I.; Losev, K. S.; Reyf, Igor E. (2009). Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth: Future Prospects for World Civilization. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 181. ISBN 9783540752493.
  17. ^ a b Levit, Georgy S.: The Biosphere and the Noosphere Theories of V.I. Vernadsky and P. Teilhard de Chardin: A Methodological Essay, International Archives on the History of Science/Archives Internationales D'Histoire des Sciences", 2000. p. 161.
  18. ^ Lavrenova, Olga (25 March 2019). Spaces and Meanings: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape. Cham: Springer. p. 16. ISBN 9783030151676.
  19. ^ "Global Consciousness Project—consciousness, group consciousness, mind". Noosphere.princeton.edu. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  20. ^ Norgaard, Richard B. (1994). Development betrayed : the end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future. London: Routledge. ISBN 0203012402. OCLC 69862402.

References edit

  • Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Continuum, 2004, p. 77.
  • Hödl, Elisabeth, "Die Noosphäre als Bezugsrahmen für das Recht" ("The noosphere as a framework for the conception of law") in: Schweighofer/Kummer/Hötzendorfer (ed.): Transformation juristischer Sprachen, Tagungsband des 15. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions, 2012, pp. 639–648.
  • Oliver Krüger: Gaia, God, and the Internet - revisited. The History of Evolution and the Utopia of Community in Media Society. In: Online – Heidelberg Journal for Religions on the Internet 8 (2015), online Text.
  • Norgaard, R. B. (1994). Development betrayed: the end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future. London; New York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-06862-2
  • Raymond, Eric (2000), "Homesteading the Noosphere", available online.
  • Samson, Paul R.; Pitt, David (eds.) (1999), The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change. ISBN 0-415-16644-6
  • Various authors (1997). "The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information", World Futures, Volumes "49 (3-4)" and "50 (1-4)", Special Issue

External links edit

 
Look up noosphere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • "Evidence for the Akashic Field from Modern Consciousness Research" by consciousness researcher Dr. Stanislav Grof, M.D.
  • The Place of the Noosphere in Cosmic Evolution (pdf) 6 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  • Global Consciousness project at Princeton
  • Transhumanist Declaration 13 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  • , a Podcast from Stanford Law School
  • Omega Point Institute 1 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine Noosphere, Global Thought, Future Studies
  • A web application that tries to imitate Noosphere
  • A web application simulating the Noosphere by changing paradigms of content discovery
  • States that the Web is the substrate for the "sphere of human thought"

December 15, 2023
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The noosphere alternate spelling noosphere is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Vernadsky defined the noosphere as the new state of the biosphere 1 and described as the planetary sphere of reason 2 3 The noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development that of humankind s rational activities 4 The word is derived from the Greek noos nous mind reason and sfaῖra sphere in lexical analogy to atmosphere and biosphere 5 The concept cannot be accredited to a single author The founding authors Vernadsky and de Chardin developed two related but starkly different concepts the former grounded in the geological sciences and the latter in theology Both conceptions of the noosphere share the common thesis that together human reason and scientific thought have created and will continue to create the next evolutionary geological layer This geological layer is part of the evolutionary chain 6 7 Second generation authors predominantly of Russian origin have further developed the Vernadskian concept creating the related concepts noocenosis and noocenology 8 Contents 1 Founding authors 2 Concept 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksFounding authors editThe term noosphere was first used in the publications of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922 9 in his Cosmogenesis 10 Vernadsky was most likely introduced to the term by a common acquaintance Edouard Le Roy during a stay in Paris 11 Some sources claim Edouard Le Roy actually first proposed the term 12 Vernadsky himself wrote that he was first introduced to the concept by Le Roy in his 1927 lectures at the College of France and that Le Roy had emphasized a mutual exploration of the concept with Teilhard de Chardin 13 According to Vernadsky s own letters he took Le Roy s ideas on the noosphere from Le Roy s article Les origines humaines et l evolution de l intelligence part III La noosphere et l hominisation before reworking the concept within his own field biogeochemistry 14 The historian Bailes concludes that Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin were mutual influences on each other as Teilhard de Chardin also attended the Vernadsky s lectures on biogeochemistry before creating the concept of the noosphere 15 An account stated that Le Roy and Teilhard were not aware of the concept of biosphere in their noosphere concept and that it was Vernadsky who introduced them to this notion which gave their conceptualization a grounding on natural sciences 16 Both Teilhard de Chardin and Vernadsky base their conceptions of the noosphere on the term biosphere developed by Edward Suess in 1875 17 Despite the differing backgrounds approaches and focuses of Teilhard and Vernadsky they have a few fundamental themes in common Both scientists overstepped the boundaries of natural science and attempted to create all embracing theoretical constructions founded in philosophy social sciences and authorized interpretations of the evolutionary theory 17 Moreover both thinkers were convinced of the teleological character of evolution They also argued that human activity becomes a geological power and that the manner by which it is directed can influence the environment 18 There are fundamental differences in the two conceptions Concept editIn the theory of 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 emerges at the point where humankind through the mastery of nuclear processes begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements It is a study area of the Global Consciousness Project 19 For de Chardin the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the Earth As mankind organizes itself in more complex social networks the higher the noosphere will grow in awareness This concept extends Teilhard s Law of Complexity Consciousness the law describing the nature of evolution in the universe Teilhard argued the noosphere is growing towards an even greater integration and unification culminating in the Omega Point an apex of thought consciousness which he saw as the goal of history One of the original aspects of the noosphere concept deals with evolution Henri Bergson with his L evolution creatrice 1907 was one of the first to propose evolution is creative and cannot necessarily be explained solely by Darwinian natural selection citation needed L evolution creatrice is upheld according to Bergson by a constant vital force which animates life and fundamentally connects mind and body an idea opposing the dualism of Rene Descartes In 1923 C Lloyd Morgan took this work further elaborating on an emergent evolution which could explain increasing complexity including the evolution of mind Morgan found many of the most interesting changes in living things have been largely discontinuous with past evolution Therefore these living things did not necessarily evolve through a gradual process of natural selection Rather he posited the process of evolution experiences jumps in complexity such as the emergence of a self reflective universe or noosphere in a sort of qualitative punctuated equilibrium Finally the complexification of human cultures particularly language facilitated a quickening of evolution in which cultural evolution occurs more rapidly than biological evolution Recent understanding of human ecosystems and of human impact on the biosphere have led to a link between the notion of sustainability with the co evolution 20 and harmonization of cultural and biological evolution See also editAnthropocene Anthropogenic metabolism Anthroposphere technosphere Collective consciousness Culture of health Ecological civilization Global brain Human ecology Hylozoism Ideosphere Knowledge ecosystem Noocracy Noology Panpsychism Presence telepresence Scale analytical tool Social organism Technoetics World BrainNotes edit Pitt David Samson Paul R 2012 The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader Global Environment Society and Change Oxon Routledge pp 6 ISBN 978 0415166447 Yanshin A L Yanshina F T Preface in Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon Moscow Nongovernmental Ecological V I Vernadsky Foundation 1997 Original Nauchnaya mysl kak planetnoe yavlenie translated by B A Starostin p 6 See Moiseev Nikita Nikolaevich Chelovek i noosfera Molodaya gvardiya 1990 Translation of Russian Title Moiseyev Nikita Nikolaievich Man and the Noosphere 26 s Petrashov V V Nachala noocenologii nauka o vosstanovlenii ekosistem i sozdanii noocenozov M 1998 Translation of Russian Title Petrashov V V The Beginning of Noocenology Science of Ecosystem Restoration and the Creation of Nocenoses 6 c he defined noosphere as the thinking envelope of the biosphere and the conscious unity of souls David H Lane 1996 The phenomenon of Teilhard prophet for a new age p 4 See Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon Moscow Nongovernmental Ecological V I Vernadsky Foundation 1997 Original Nauchnaya mysl kak planetnoe yavlenie translated by B A Starostin 1997 See Teilhard de Chardin Pierre Der Mensch im Kosmos Munchen C H Beck 1959 Original Le Phenomene humain 1955 English Title The Phenomenon of Man 1961 Petrashov 1998 6 c In 1922 Teilhard wrote in an essay with the title Hominization And this amounts to imagining in one way or another above the animal biosphere a human sphere a sphere of reflection of conscious invention of conscious souls the noosphere if you will 1966 p 63 It was a neologism employing the Greek word noos for mind Teilhard de Chardin Hominization 1923 The Vision of the Past pages 71 230 261 Tambov State Technical University The Prominent Russian Scientist V I Vernadsky Russian See Fuchs Kittowski K Kruger P The Noosphere Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir I Vernadsky in the Perspective of Information and of World Wide Communication in World Futures Vol 50 No 1 4 1997 p 768 Moiseev 1990 24 c Original Citation in Vernadskij Vladimir Neskolko slov o noosfere Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing 2018 Translation of Russian Title Vernadsky Vladimir Some Words on the Noosphere Aphorism 11 Original Published 1944 Citation from Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing 2018 here Fuchs Kittowski K Kruger P The Noosphere Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir I Vernadsky in the Perspective of Information and of World Wide Communication in World Futures Vol 50 No 1 4 1997 p 769 Bailes Kendall E Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions V I Vernadsky and His Scientific School 1863 1945 Bloomigton Indianapolis Indiana University Press 1990 p 162 Danilov Danil yan Victor I Losev K S Reyf Igor E 2009 Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth Future Prospects for World Civilization Berlin Springer Science amp Business Media p 181 ISBN 9783540752493 a b Levit Georgy S The Biosphere and the Noosphere Theories of V I Vernadsky and P Teilhard de Chardin A Methodological Essay International Archives on the History of Science Archives Internationales D Histoire des Sciences 2000 p 161 Lavrenova Olga 25 March 2019 Spaces and Meanings Semantics of the Cultural Landscape Cham Springer p 16 ISBN 9783030151676 Global Consciousness Project consciousness group consciousness mind Noosphere princeton edu Retrieved 24 July 2012 Norgaard Richard B 1994 Development betrayed the end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future London Routledge ISBN 0203012402 OCLC 69862402 References editDeleuze Gilles and Felix Guattari A Thousand Plateaus Continuum 2004 p 77 Hodl Elisabeth Die Noosphare als Bezugsrahmen fur das Recht The noosphere as a framework for the conception of law in Schweighofer Kummer Hotzendorfer ed Transformation juristischer Sprachen Tagungsband des 15 Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions 2012 pp 639 648 Oliver Kruger Gaia God and the Internet revisited The History of Evolution and the Utopia of Community in Media Society In Online Heidelberg Journal for Religions on the Internet 8 2015 online Text Norgaard R B 1994 Development betrayed the end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future London New York Routledge ISBN 0 415 06862 2 Raymond Eric 2000 Homesteading the Noosphere available online Samson Paul R Pitt David eds 1999 The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader Global Environment Society and Change ISBN 0 415 16644 6 Various authors 1997 The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information World Futures Volumes 49 3 4 and 50 1 4 Special IssueExternal links 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