The Noosphere and Similar Concepts

The purpose of this article is to link various terminologies that pertain to, what I loosely call, a global produced consciousness. There’s the Noosphere, the Collective Unconscious, the Super Conscious, the idea of a Learning Evolution, the Global Brain. There’s others but this is a good beginning.

Below are excerpts, and their corresponding links, from articles where people have linked the various terms mentioned above. Also I’ve included links to three TEDx Talks videos on the Noosphere.

A good place to start is reading this article I found on academia.edu by Guillermo Agudelo Murguía. It’s in .pdf format and I didn’t want to lose it so downloaded it to this server.

The Noosphere Concept by Guillermo Agudelo Murguía

Here are links to three TEDx Talks video on the Noosphere.

How to Occupy the Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie

TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere

The Third Story of the Universe | Brian Swimme

Noosphere is here

Above the fray, there is a direction to this accelerating evolutionary process, and the logical next step is consciousness. Roughly four million years were needed to found Agrarian Civilizations. Nine thousand years to invent Industrial Society. One hundred years for the Post-Industrial Era. Five decades to a Knowledge Age. And the past 20 years to an Age of Consciousness.

Today, the world is poised at the cusp of transformation from a society based on knowledge to one guided by consciousness.

So too could our passage to global maturity develop into a fairly normal transition in a few years. The LCE graph shows that a Mental/Spiritual Revolution is poised to arrive about 2025 or so. This historic shift to an unknown era requires a new conceptual framework to map the terrain, a vision to provide inspiration and principles that work.

https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/the-noosphere-is-here/

The Noosphere and Collective Unconscious

The first time I came across the idea of One Mind was as a Philosophy undergraduate when I discovered the notion of nuosphere (or noosphere) of Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). He suggests that what makes the human unique among animals is our membership of the nuosphere … the zone of thought.

After that came the Collective Unconscious of Jung (1875-1961) – the idea that we unconsciously store racial memory e.g our fear of rats stemming from the unconscious memory that rats spread the Bubonic Plague.

The next time was more recently when I read about the Akasha (or Akashic Records) … an ancient Indian belief that all thought is stored in a metaphysical pool into which we dip a toe. My experience of channelled writing is an example … the feeling that, when I wrote my short story ‘The Felix Vicarious Society’, I felt that I was some kind of agent rather than creator.

https://www.johnhendry-online.co.uk/one-mind-part-one/

The Noosphere and Super-Consciousness

The densest collection of complex information we know of thus far is the human being, and human activity gives rise to even greater complexity. Teilhard states that this reflective consciousness is “the specific effect of organized complexity,” and that it follows that some sort of intensification of human consciousness is the next step of human evolution.  In other words, a massive amount of information is building up within the relatively small confines of the planet Earth. This, Teilhard believed, will result in the blossoming of the noosphere into some form of super-consciousness, once the amount of information it contains reaches a critical density.

https://teilhard.com/2013/08/13/the-noosphere-part-i-teilhard-de-chardins-vision/

History of the Noosphere Term

Thus, much like Teilhard and Vernadsky, Le Roy viewed the expansion of the mind and the creation of the noosphere as a planetary process culminating in the noosphere’s separation from the biosphere, though not without risks:

We are, in truth, confronting a phenomenon of planetary, perhaps cosmic, importance. This new force is human intelligence; the reflexive will of humankind. Through human action, the noosphere disengages itself, little by little, from the biosphere and becomes more and more independent, and all this with rapid acceleration and an amplification of effects which continue to grow. Correlatively however, by a sort of return shock, hominisation has introduced, in the course of life, some formidable risks.

This depiction of the noosphere’s emergence is quite dramatic, even gripping and visionary—and so are the depictions offered by Teilhard and Vernadsky. Their metaphoric power might well help explain why the noosphere concept keeps spreading, not only over time but also across spiritual, intellectual, and other boundaries.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep26549.9.pdf

Evolution and Learning

Professor Richard Watson says new research shows that evolution is able to learn from previous experience, which could provide a better explanation of how evolution by natural selection produces such apparently intelligent designs.

By unifying the theory of evolution (which shows how random variation and selection is sufficient to provide incremental adaptation) with learning theories (which show how incremental adaptation is sufficient for a system to exhibit intelligent behaviour), this research shows that it is possible for evolution to exhibit some of the same intelligent behaviours as learning systems (including neural networks).

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218085616.htm

The Global Brain

Although researchers are working to develop superintelligent computers that will exceed the capabilities of an individual human, a number of futurists believe that we will not be superseded by such machines. Instead, humans and their technologies are more likely to merge into a new meta-species. This meta-species could well be called Sapiens plurum, the Wisdom of Many.

Various Sapiens plurum  will associate themselves with and via one or more of the superintelligences under development. Each will include many humans, groups and other entities.

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