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noosphere|ˈnəʊəʊsfɪə(r)|
[a. F. noösphere, f. Gr. νόο-ς mind + sphere n. 7.]
The name given by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in his theory of evolution to the stage or sphere characterized by the emergence of consciousness and mind which follows the stage of the establishment of human life (see quot. 1959). Also fig. Hence noospˈheric a.
1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action iv. 110 It provides a new kind of environment for life to inhabit. It needs a name of its own: following Père Teilhard de Chardin, the French paleontologist and philosopher, I shall call it the nöosphere, the world of mind. 1959B. Wall tr. Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenon of Man iii. i. 182 Much more coherent and just as extensive as any preceding layer, it is really a new layer, the ‘thinking layer’, which..has spread over and above the world of plants and animals. In other words, outside and above the biosphere there is the noosphere. 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 32 This externalization of our senses creates what de Chardin calls the ‘noosphere’ or a technological brain for the world. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 350/5 Linguistic anthropologists are at least asking questions about language which pull that phenomenon down from its cold noosphere back into the warm current of social living. 1966New Statesman 6 May 659/2 Stock fictional characters in some kind of noöspheric organisation run by Conchis for his own enlightenment. 1967New Scientist 26 Jan. 227/2 In practice we all act as if the mental aspect of Chardin's noösphere really is a guiding and determining factor in human existence. 1970Sci. Amer. Sept. 53/3 Just before his death on January 6, 1945, he wrote..‘I think that we undergo not only a historical, but a planetary change as well. We live in a transition to the noosphere.’ By noosphere Vernadsky meant the envelope of mind that was to supersede the biosphere. |