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noosphere

noun /ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/

  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.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry noosphere (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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