Reading The Noosphere
Exegesis/Seminar/Discussion/Meditation/Composition Collective
Shall we collectively grok the Noosphere? The Noosphere, a concept first coined by Vernadksy, names the effect of awareness on the living systems. Vernadksy's definition was essentially a functional one - the noosphere is the effect of collective human attention on the Biosphere, which in turn transformed the lithosphere through the processes of living systems. Given what we now know about plant, fungal and bacterial intelligence, it now seems necessary to expand Vernadksy's definition to include all organisms and groups of organisms capable of actively increasing their dissipation of exergy (available energy). Every layer of this system appears to be thermodynamically informed, so we will use concepts from thermodynamics to orient our investigation of this emergent attribute of our planet. Every two weeks we will contextualize Vernadksy's concept by looking to the history of philosophy, sacred and scientific texts of diverse sorts in order to experiment with our collective attention on the concept of collective attention. Recursively we will explore, together, the ecological, psychological and spiritual effects of this
re-mapping of ecological and individuated mind.
Syllabus
http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/DaNoosphereBiosphere II info
March 2008
ME AND THE BIOSPHERES:
A MEMOIR BY THE INVENTOR OF
BIOSPHERE 2
Paperback ISBN 9780907791379
Retail to be determined
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