the noosphere
The Noosphere, a coined term, defines the collective output of mankind's thought and culture.
Pierre Teillhard De Chardin, distinguished the noosphere from the geosphere — the non living world — and from the biosphere — the living world.
“Pushed one against the other by the growth of their number and by the proliferation of their connections, approached one to the other by the reawakening of a common force and by the feeling of a common anxiety, the future human kind will form nothing but an unified consciousness” — Teillhard De Chardin, 1947.
According to Teillhard, there exists, beyond the laws of physics, another fundamental principle of organization in the universe, another dimension — the infinitely complex.
From the simplest to the most complex, all matter can be put in allignement along an axis, from the most elementary particle to the most complex organism. In this progression towards an ever increasing complexity — of which the human being is the highest grade — evolution is not linear but proceeds by a series of quantitative then qualitative leaps.
When a level of complexity reaches its point of maximum complexity, it jumps to a new, different level and organization.
The more matter becomes complex, the more it approaches “awareness”.
At least, that's what I remember from PHI under-grad....;-)
