We Are Slowly Moving from the Neurosphere to the Coming Evolutionshift
In an earlier column this year – The Neurosphere / The Two Realities of the Shift Age – I explained why I came up with this name, the Neurosphere. It describes a much more technological view of the coming evolutionary shift in consciousness than the one set forth by Teilhard de Chardin’s Noosphere. As I wrote in this column:
“Think of the Neurosphere as the aggregation of all human thought that sits, synaptic, pulsating, expanding on the technologically based connectivity, rapidly connecting all humans.
It is our other reality that moves us to our next evolutionary step at a faster pace than our slower physiology-based evolution in the physical biosphere.”
The other concept in the above linked column is that now that we are in the Shift Age, there are two realities we have to manage as humans: the physical reality we have always lived in, and the new, portable screen reality. Dozens, if not hundreds of times a day we move between our physical reality and our screen reality. I have been writing and speaking about this since 2007, but it wasn’t until Covid in 2020 that a majority of people came to understand this as our collective reality.
The phenomenal growth – and dramatically lowering costs - of bandwidth, cellular mobility and storage has been accelerating the arrival of full scale Neurosphere.
Two and a half years ago when Chat/GPT was introduced, I wrote a column that used it to compare de Chardin’s Noosphere, Houle’s Evolutionshift, the now fully ridiculed Metaverse, which at the time was Zuckerberg’s big [self-serving]vision and Kurzweil’s Singularity. The title of the column was “Chat/GPT on the Noosphere, the Metaverse [Evolutionshift and Singularity]”
To lift just a small part of this column:
“Both Teilhard de Chardin's concept of the noosphere and futurist David Houle's vision of evolution shift share a common goal of understanding the future of humanity and the planet. However, there are some differences in their perspectives and interpretations.
Teilhard de Chardin defined the noosphere as the sphere of human thought that has emerged from the biosphere, which is the sphere of living beings. He saw the noosphere as a product of the ever-increasing interconnectivity of human minds through communication and knowledge-sharing, leading to a single, global consciousness.
On the other hand, David Houle defines evolution shift as a new stage in human evolution, driven by the exponential growth of communication and information technologies. He sees this transformation as a shift in the very fabric of reality, from a world dominated by matter and energy to one dominated by information and knowledge.
While both concepts recognize the importance of human consciousness and the collective intelligence of humanity in shaping the future, Teilhard's focus is on the spiritual and cultural evolution of humanity, while Houle's focus is on technological evolution.
In conclusion, Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere and David Houle's evolution shift share a common goal of understanding the future of humanity and the planet. However, they have different perspectives and interpretations, with Teilhard focusing on the spiritual and cultural evolution of humanity and Houle focusing on technological evolution. Both concepts provide valuable insights into the future of humanity and the planet and are worth exploring further.”
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“The concept of the Noosphere, proposed by Teilhard de Chardin, is the idea that human thought and culture create a collective consciousness that encompasses the Earth. Kurzweil's Singularity refers to a future point in time where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and leads to a rapid acceleration of technological progress.
Houle's Evolutionshift takes these concepts one step further and argues that the Singularity will lead to an integration of technology and biology resulting in a new hybrid species. This shift will transform society, culture, and individual experience as humans evolve into post-human beings.
In summary, the Noosphere represents the collective consciousness of humanity, the Singularity predicts a future of technological acceleration, and the Evolutionshift envisions a transformation of humanity itself.”
As a species, humanity can move towards this vision of our next step. To do so, we must let go of Legacy Thinking, and understand that the current state of the world, might just be the death rattle of the old ways. The ways we used to think about things will increasingly not work into the future. When it all either falls away, or collapses, there is a clear path to move forward that is the next step in our journey as a species.