# noosphere the noosphere (alternate spelling noösphere) is a philosophical concept developed and popularised 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 and described it as the planetary "sphere of reason." the noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development that of humankind's rational activities the word is derived from the greek νόος ("nous mind reason") and σφαῖρα ("sphere") in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere." 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. second-generation authors predominantly of russian origin have further developed the vernadskian concept creating the related concepts: noocenosis and noocenology 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 for de chardin the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. the noosphere has grown in step with the organisation 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 ey saw as the goal of history the term noosphere was first used in the publications of pierre teilhard de chardin in 1922 in ir cosmogenesis. vernadsky was most likely introduced to the term by a common acquaintance edouard le roy during a stay in paris. some sources claim edouard le roy actually first proposed the term. vernadsky himself wrote that ey was first introduced to the concept by le roy in ir 1927 lectures at the college of france and that le roy had emphasised a mutual exploration of the concept with teilhard de chardin. according to vernadsky's own letters ey 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 ir own field biogeochemistry. the historian bailes concludes that vernadsky and teilhard de chardin were mutual influences on each other as teilhard de chardin also attended vernadsky's lectures on biogeochemistry before creating the concept of the noosphere an account stated that le roy and teilhard were not aware of the concept of biosphere in ir noosphere concept and that it was vernadsky who introduced them to this notion which gave ir conceptualisation a grounding on natural sciences. both teilhard de chardin and vernadsky base ir conceptions of the noosphere on the term 'biosphere' developed by edward suess in 1875. 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 the natural sciences and attempted to create all-embracing theoretical constructions founded in philosophy the social sciences and authorised interpretations of the evolutionary theory. 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. there are fundamental differences in the two conceptions **+** anthropocene **+** anthropogenic metabolism **+** anthroposphere (technosphere) **+** collective consciousness **+** culture of health **+** global brain **+** human ecology **+** hylozoism **+** ideosphere **+** knowledge ecosystem **+** noocracy **+** noology **+** panpsychism **+** presence (telepresence) **+** scale (analytical tool) **+** social organism **+** technoetics **+** world brain **+** global consciousness project 1. pitt david; samson paul r. (2012.) the biosphere and noosphere reader: global environment society and change. oxon: routledge. pp. 6. 447 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. "ey 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 phenomène humain 1955. english title: the phenomenon of man 1961) 8. петрашов 1998. 6 c 9. "global consciousness project - consciousness group consciousness mind." noosphere.princeton.edu. retrieved 24 july 2012 10. in 1922 teilhard wrote in an essay with the title 'hominisation': "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 "hominisation" (1923) "the vision of the past" pages 71 230 261) 11. tambov state technical university: the prominent russian scientist v. i. vernadsky (russian) 12. 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 13. моисеев 1990. 24 c 14. 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 15. 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 16. bailes kendall e.: science and russian culture in an age of revolutions - v.i. vernadsky and ir scientific school 1863-1945 bloomigton indianapolis: indiana university press 1990. p. 162 17. danilov-danil'yan victor i.; losev k. s.; reyf igor e. (2009.) sustainable development and the limitation of growth: future prospects for world civilisation. berlin: springer science & business media. p. 181. 493 18. jump up to: 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 19. lavrenova olga (25 march 2019.) spaces and meanings: semantics of the cultural landscape. cham: springer. p. 16. 676 **+** deleuze gilles and felix 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 **+** 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 **+** various authors (1997.) "the quest for a unified theory of information" world futures volumes "49 (3-4)" and "50 (1-4)" special issue **+** "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) archived 6 july 2008 at the wayback machine **+** global consciousness project at princeton **+** fortaleciendo la inteligencia sincrónica **+** unidad de ciencia noosfericas de la universidad del mar en chile **+** transhumanist declaration archived 13 october 2017 at the wayback machine **+** "just say yes to the noosphere" a podcast from stanford law school **+** omega point institute archived 1 march 2021 at the wayback machine noosphere global thought future studies **+** semandeks a web application that tries to imitate noosphere **+** noosfeer a web application simulating the noosphere by changing paradigms of content discovery **+** synaptic web states that the web is the substrate for the "sphere of human thought" // republic of bob