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David Ronfeldt's avatar

The two slides about the noosphere — “Noosphere or Habitus?” and “Example: ‘Automotive Cosmopolis’” — lack accuracy. The risk of using definitions from ChatGPT?

Instead of making it look like Teilhard and Vernadsky had rival definitions. the first slide would improve if it provided a core definition of the noosphere. Then show that T’s view was more spiritual, V’s more materialist. The second slide overdraws too.

Plus, I’d suggest a point is being missed: Nation-states, metropolises, and cosmopolises all have (and depend on having) a noosphere to some degree. But the future-oriented cosmopolis concept requires the development of a bigger better noosphere. And by bigger better, I mean across all its layers (ideational, technological, organizational, social) and their respective protocols.

I sense you could do a lot more with the noosphere concept, and that it can serve your interests as much if not more than the habitus concept. After all, as Teilhard, Vernadsky, and LeRoy forecast a century ago, a fully-linked noosphere is just beginning to emerge as a third layer atop our planet’s geosphere (first to evolve) and biosphere (second to evolve).

Anyway, glad to see you working on such matters. Onward.

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Shawn Kilburn's avatar

“An articulation of civilizational memory so rich, deep, and alive, it constitutes something like a planetary awakening, not merely into a new consciousness, but a new memory of itself.” Reminds me of Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere.

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