Noosphere

THE EMERGENCE OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE AGE OF COVID Global Problems and Global Solutions Based on a Lecture to the Caritas Consciousness Project, April 2020 1. INTRODUCTION The term “collective consciousness” has been used by religious visionaries and technology utopians alike, but most use it in a metaphorical sense. Developmental psychologist Clare Graves, among others, predicted the emergence of…

Decentralization is a lot older and weirder than you think. In today’s world, everyone is connected to everyone else in a single decentralized network. It’s almost impossible to read that sentence and not think of hyperlinks, smartphones, social media, and connected devices. But many people don’t know that this idea has been around much longer than the internet. Way back in 1922 just following…

I have written a little bit on the subject of absurdism and existentialism, and these were criticisms. In some ways, criticisms are the lowest forms of articulation, because they lack any kind of meaningful stakes. …

I had a conversation about technology with Marina Psaros the other day that took a curious turn. I met Marina a couple years ago in a community of climate activists who work in the video game industry. She’s co-author of the book Atlas of Disappearing Places, which uses data to…

Teilhard and the Internet — A Re-appraisal Don Dulchinos President, Neurosphere Technologies https://www.linkedin.com/in/dondulchinos/ http://www.neurosphere.org ABSTRACT In the 1990’s, spiritually-oriented members of the high-tech community argued that the Internet represented the emergence of Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere. But first the overwhelming profits of Internet companies, and then later problems like Facebook’s…

Two people come to mind for me in my understanding of the noosphere, in fact, it is thanks to the mighty noosphere that anything comes to my mind at all. Right now, this invisible force, is transmitting the meaning of these letters into your mind. The noosphere governs all. So…

This article is a personal response to the idea of the noosphere, the global network of cultural ideas, beliefs, attitudes that can be understood as an emerging planetary consciousness. Pause for a moment to track your awareness of that last sentence. If you are a scientist like me, you might…