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noosphere

/ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/US/ˈnoʊ.əsfɪɚ/

noosphere noun: the sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.

Noun

noosphere (plural noospheres)

  1. The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
    • I used to have a pretty clear idea of God. Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out. Three unpersons in one anthropomorphic noosphere.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 573
    • Finally, human beings reproduce themselves mentally through exchanges with cultural and symbolic environments[…] These relational exchanges are embedded in the traditions and institutions of a particular society in such a way that that society can reproduce itself on a cultural level, can reproduce...1995, Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Shambhala, →ISBN, page 66

noosphere meaning in Tamil

noosphere in Tamil

சிந்தனைக் கோளம்

Examples of noosphere in a sentence

  • […] Therefore, high capacity nodes will experience greater latency from the rest of the noosphere, and the intelligences that inhabit them will likely be more individualistic.2000 November 18, Alexandre Owen Muniz, “Individualism in Transhuman Society.”, in SL4 mailing list, message-ID...
  • This creates a pattern of homesteading in the noosphere that rather resembles that of settlers spreading into a physical frontier—not random, but like a diffusion-limited fractal.2001 [1999], Eric S. Raymond, “Homesteading the Noosphere”, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 92:
  • The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth.2012 October 4, Esther Inglis-Arkell, “What comes next after the Noosphere?”, in Gizmodo:

Forms of noosphere

pluralnoospheres
alternative formnoösphere

Origin of noosphere

Borrowed from French noosphère, from Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), developed and perhaps coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky, in analogy to atmosphere, biosphere etc. By surface analysis, nous (“mind”) + -sphere.

Words formed from noosphere

Questions about noosphere

What does noosphere mean?
Noosphere means the sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
What is noosphere in Tamil?
Noosphere in Tamil is சிந்தனைக் கோளம். See Noosphere meaning in Tamil.
How do you use noosphere in a sentence?
[…] Therefore, high capacity nodes will experience greater latency from the rest of the noosphere, and the intelligences that inhabit them will likely be more individualistic.
What part of speech is noosphere?
Noosphere is a noun.
How do you pronounce noosphere?
Noosphere is pronounced /ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/ (UK).
What is the plural of noosphere?
The plural of noosphere is noospheres.

Words near noosphere in the dictionary

  1. noosfias
  2. noosign
  3. noosigns
  4. noosing
  5. noosings
  6. noosphere
  7. noospheres
  8. noospheric
  9. noot
  10. nootice
  11. nooticed

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