Reading The Noosphere with Flobius Mobius

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.

Welcome to Da Noosphere.

Syllabus

http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/DaNoosphere

Biosphere II info
March 2008

ME AND THE BIOSPHERES:
A MEMOIR BY THE INVENTOR OF
BIOSPHERE 2

By John Allen

Paperback ISBN 9780907791379
Retail to be determined

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You would think it would take several lifetimes to attend four universities, earn degrees in engineering, metallurgical-mining, writing, classics, world history, anthropology and business (including a MBA from Harvard),
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Doyle Updates Leary Project psychedelics & ecodelics

mobius updates Leary Project

TURN ON. Why do we so favor this language of the "turn on" for all things psychedelic and, hence, wikidelic? Our only analogy for the novelty and seemingly infinite potential of psychedelic experience was a machinic one -we chose to compare ourselves to an informational machine both digital and analog. "Turn on" is digital, announcing as it does a discrete state of "on" or "off." So Leary's mantra begins with an experimental performative mapping of ourselves as Boolean machines.TUNE IN. "Tune in" resounds with the suddenly enormous freedom to metaprogram this obviously interactive - and hence, for Leary, cybernetic - machine we momentarily map ourselves as. As a third order cybernetic operation, ( a map of a map of a map that clears new territories) "Drop Out" tunes the tuning toward the most proximate bit of order with which we have an analogy, with which we are continuous -a "sample" of the former self which is then dropped, released. Any aspect of ourselves for which we do not have a satisifying narrative, either (1) produces a narrative, and in a jiffy, through difficulty and out or (2) is released due to inability to narrate. This penchant for letting go of some accrued noise (Gelassenheit as Eckhart dubbed it) seems to initiate a tropism toward re-imagining self in the Light of Self.DROP OUT. So "dropping out" was anything but a "giving up", but was instead an intensification of personal yes spiritual iinformational rhetorical evolution necessary to the next stage of the human and transhuman adventure. Add to the mix that this brings out larger structures within which we are embedded ( See the Witkin Embedded Figure Test and its responsiveness to psychdelics, and Pop goes the dissipative structure - the noosphere! Psychedelics offered a rhetorical re-orientation, a living within Korzybski's "The Map is Not the Territory" that lets go of linguistic phenomena as anything but labels for our benefit and evolution. When I drank ayahuasca, I learned to let go of former versions of my self that were not sustainable in the context of larger versions of my Self ( ecosystem), and I did so by releasing them and seeing them for what they are - aspects of my self and not my Self, maps and not territories.

Leary famously gave out the mantra "Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out", and we seem unable to hear the original context of this "drop out", which was really a "dropping in" to radical learning through the breakdown of established rhetorical habit structures. From the beginning, Leary treated the sacred context of psychedelics as both fundamental and implicit in the rest of his work. In this way Wiki is in its way as psychedelic as LSD. It "manifests" "mind", but hints at a collective mind, a Millbrook for the Noosphere. So we are "turned on" to our evolutionary feelin' through sexual selection in evolution, a sorting of our selves by our Selves in intensive, ecstatic mutual self examination. To put it in primate terms, the self is put under the microscope by the Self, and groomed. Mobius has written of the "ecodelic hypothesis" in his forthcoming tome, and with the right googlin you can find it!