http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Teilhard-de-Chardin Posts tagged with 'Teilhard-de-Chardin' at MetaFilter. Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:24:17 -0800 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:24:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/56565/History%2Dof%2Da%2Dmeme <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere">At the beginning was the noosphere.</a> The existence of a "sphere of ideas", beyond the "sphere of life" (biosphere) and the "sphere of matter" (geosphere) was apparently first postulated by the pioneering Russian-Ukrainian geochemist <a href="http://www.tstu.ru/eng/kultur/nauka/vernad/uchver.htm">V.I. Vernadsky</a>. Vernadsky thought not only that the biosphere had entirely reshaped the geosphere, but that the burgeoning noosphere of interconnected thought would ultimately change the biosphere just as much. French jesuit and paleontologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin">Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</a> took the concept and <a href="http://www.butler-bowdon.com/phenomenonman.htm">ran with it</a>...(more inside) tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56565 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:24:17 -0800 Dawkins Evolution gaia global-village memes noösphere Teilhard-de-Chardin Skeptic