Why Humanity is Special - de Chardin and the Birth of the Noosphere

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theory of evolution posits that with the emergence of the Noosphere (the thinking or mind sphere which transcended the Biosphere and in turn the Physiosphere) the Omega Point was now being converged upon. With the Noosphere Life has penetrated a new ceiling unlike any since the birth of life itself. Now evolution wasn't limited to chromosomes but we saw the emergence of a whole new form of evolution: acquired traits. In other words, culture is a new form of evolution but at the Noospheric level rather than the chromosomal level of the Biosphere.
Both the Noosphere and the Biosphere of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have for their substrate what Ken Wilber later called the Physiosphere. With the secret ingredient of complexity, the inert matter of the Physiosphere became vitalised as the living Biosphere. In turn as the complexity of the Biosphere reached a new level, we see the emergence of the Noosphere and with this new emergence, a convergence has begun upon what de Chardin called the Omega Point but which could be called in today's language the Singularity (or as some have called it - the Rapture of the Nerds).
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Further Reading:
- de Chardin, T. 1956. *Man's Place in Nature*, Fontana Press: London
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⌛ Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:28 A Tale of Two Spheres: the Physiosphere and the Biosphere
04:04 The Third Sphere: the Emergence of the Noosphere
05:12 The Threshold of Reflection
07:40 Knitting Together