> [!custom-seed-type]- Note Details > - Growth stage: [[seed 🌱]] > - Type: #concept[](seed%20🌱.md)e - The noosphere is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, which postulates that the Earth is evolving from the biosphere (the realm of life) into a new, higher level of organization: the noosphere, or the realm of human thought, collective consciousness, and cultural evolution. - Noosphere means planetary consciousness, a hypothetical new evolutionary phenomena arising from the biosphere. It’s a lighthearted joke, but also an aspiration. - In Vernadsky's theory of the Earth's development, the noosphere is the third stage in the earth's development, 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 will fundamentally transform the biosphere. In this theory, the principles of both life and cognition are essential features of the Earth's evolution. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky) - Another thinker who developed the concept of the "noosphere" is a French Jesuit priest and scientist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In his book The Phenomenon of Man, written in the 1930s, he: - set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos and the evolution of matter to humanity. - The unfolding of the material cosmos is described from primordial particles to the development of life, human beings and the noosphere, and finally to his vision of the Omega Point in the future, which is "pulling" all creation towards it. - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin) - This "Omega point" is a precursor to the concept of the technological "Singularity" - but with a more explicit religious/spiritual connotation. - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point#Technological_sing...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point#Technological_singularity) - Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker". Published in 1937, it's in public domain (in Canada at least), and can be downloaded in various formats here: [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200108](https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200108) - > Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations. Sources - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33741727 -