noogenesisn.
/ˌnəʊə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌnoʊəˈdʒɛnəsəs/ In or with reference to the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: the development of the stage or sphere of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships.
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1947 Sci. Monthly June 487/1 It must either be a force peculiar to life and to this extent non-physical or it must reside on some super-, or at least extranatural plane... Driesch called it ‘entelechy’; Bergson called it the élan vital; Osborn called it ‘aristogenesis’ (among other things); Teilhard calls it ‘noogenesis’.
1959 B. Wall tr. P. Teilhard de Chardin Phenomenon of Man iii. i. 181 Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function—the engendering and subsequent development of all the stages of the mind, in one word noogenesis.
1966 C. F. Mooney Teilhard de Chardin ii. 43 ‘Noogenesis’ will therefore be spiritual and social, that is to say, it will concern itself with the development of individuals as persons and with society on the level of interpersonal relationships.
1976 E. Boulding in R. Bundy Images of Future vi. 177 Teilhard de Chardin..saw noogenesis as a process of psychosocial evolution that drew the whole of the material world into a pulsing, aware relationship with the layer of human consciousness that he called the ‘noosphere’.
1998 R. J. S. J. Roth Radical Pragmatism vi. 140 Teilhard felt it to be unthinkable that the hope for the future of noogenesis would be unfulfilled.
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