Noospheres

As I've been reading over the years, I see a lot of similar information so I just gloss over it because it's not connected to anything or I can't connect it to something. For me, something has to be "glued" to something else. On social media it's difficult to make those connections because everything is flowing in a "rapids" of content.

After you've been connecting over years or decades, you get those "tip of the tongue" moments where you ask yourself, "where did I see that before?" The mind is already capable of "hyperlinking", and that's why in the early web people loved the idea that things could be interlinked that way. It was a metaphor for the way the brain already worked. So it's no wonder society is where it is: we are doing the connecting but without the hyperlinks. It's finding what can be connectable in its own noosphere.

 4/24/2021

 

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The noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the Earth. As mankind organizes itself in more complex social networks, the higher the noosphere will grow in awareness. This concept extends Teilhard's Law of Complexity/Consciousness, the law describing the nature of evolution in the universe. Teilhard argued the noosphere is growing towards an even greater integration and unification, culminating in the Omega Point - an apex of thought/consciousness - which he saw as the goal of history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere 

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Then there are the connections that are less likely to be connected. People in the arts make the connections that other people don't, but over time if lots of people start doing those things they become fused together, they become one thing. Take for example astrology which has been around for hundreds of years. Even Newton was into astrology. It’s a connection that perhaps he and other scientists had made back then and continued on through the generations and became an established practice. A lot of people are into that kind of thing, and for good reasons, so it's something that was connected a long time ago. Perhaps it was a random connection, became popular, then became a science. So connections can be made both on the individual level and on the collective level.