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

Visit the official website here

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),
http://www.synergeticpress.com/forthcoming.html

cool Groovy Troopers site by Delphi Carstens

plenty more advanced synthetic essays!
http://www.groovytroopers.co.za/

All Quests Lead to the Phylum

Written by Delphi Carstens

Machinic phylumis a term coined by French post-structuralist philosophers Deleuze and Guattari to describe the universe’s reservoir of self-organising principles. They reason that whenever a crystal grows, a foetus begins to develop or someone stumbles across a novel idea something or someone has accessed this omnipresent reservoir and sampled a code.

According to Manual de Landa our task, like that of the shamen, is to become responsible probe-heads that explore the Phylum in a search for new modes of being. Expressing the dynamics of a new paradigm will entail a ceaseless and brave journey, climbing from one strange attractor to another as we track the Phylum in search of a better destiny for humanity.

* Essential reading on the subject of the Phylum include Manual De Landa’s A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History or Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Science-fictional explorations include Neal Stephenson’s Diamond-Age and Tricia Sullivan’s Dreamers in Smoke.

more essays by Delphi

World Psychedelic Forum this Spring, 2008

Psychedelics have been widely used for thousands of years nearly everywhere on the planet. Psychoactive plants have been central to most ancient sacred rituals and primitive medical treatments. They have been worshipped in all cultures as "Plants of the Gods" and considered as mediators between human beings and the universe, linking the physical to the spiritual dimensions of existence.
http://www.psychedelic.info/index_2_eng.html