my noosphere

our unique status as the only species that has ever become so populous but still remains able to interbreed is pretty fascinating. there are no other species of human. our evolution has been markedly different than any other species. perhaps there are other factors that prevent interbreeding; a different kind of speciation. it could be cultural. sometimes the distance between two jutting cliffs of person are too great to string a bridge across. radical muslims and revisionist hillbillies will never make love.

what influence does media have on the way our world is blending? de Chardin & Huxley wrote about a seeming unification of the noosphere, of the human psyche. not so explicitly, a hive mentality of sorts. east and west are blending. immigrants are rendering inbred cultural stubbornness a thing of the past. we share more than ever. the internet is a mystifying technological evolution, an appendage almost. a 4th dimensional limb that can greet and share and express. think avatar, the weird hair tentacles. (i'm ashamed to have made an avatar reference, but i go with what comes to mind.)

de Chardin has another cool idea about how the very nature of the earth that supports us is linked to our psychosocial intensification, or complex unity over time. because of its sphericity, ideas will encounter each other, link, form connections, and form a web. everything cool always relates to spiders i swear to gOD. "...the result will be an organised web of thought, a moetic system operating under high tension, a piece of evolutionary machinery capable of generating high psychosocial energy." cool. Huxley thinks that this sort of bound complexity is analogous to a cell membrane; all the contents can become more complex and unique within the bound environment.

he starts to lose me with "christogenesis" though. come on man, we had to go back to jesus? Huxley's got my back "I find it impossible to follow him all the way in his gallant attempt to reconcile the supernatural elements in Christianity with the facts and implications of evolution..." word.

two trends stood out to de Chardin: our movement toward extreme individuation, and toward interrelation and cooperation. such dichotomous movements suggest, to me, an elastic band being pulled too thin. but, then again, if we go back to de Chardin's spherical focus maybe these two movements are not in opposite directions. Maybe, they are toward each other; wrapping around in circles, building outward in a web.

this should be an interesting read. expand the noosphere!