Human Energy Podcast
Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
The Noosphere and the Harmony of the Spheres: Bringing Techno-, Info-, and Biospheres into Planetary Alignment - Boris Shoshitaishvili - N2 Conference 2023
Boris Shoshitaishvili from the Berggruen Institute presents his talk at the N2 Conference 2023 at the University of California Berkeley.
The Noosphere and the Harmony of the Spheres: Bringing Techno-, Info-, and Biospheres into Planetary Alignment
The noosphere is an early (and enduring) paradigm of human "planetary identity" that goes beyond some of the limitations of traditional cosmopolitan thought thanks to its suite of scientific, philosophical, and poetic resonances—such as its analogy to the geochemical system of Earth spheres; its emphasis on mind (noos); and its associations with the ancient "harmony of the spheres". But given the noosphere concept's utopian flavor from its origins in Teilhard and Vernadsky's theories, noosphere thought today runs up against a profound mismatch with context: We are increasingly recognizing that human planetary presence contributes to the creation of other, non-utopian, and "out-of-human-control" planetary spheres—specifically, the "technosphere" and the "infosphere". So a 21st century vision of the noosphere can no longer effectively serve as a utopian eschatology, as the concept had originally. But the noosphere idea still has real value today: as a framing concept for ongoing efforts at harmonizing the technosphere and infosphere with each other and with the biosphere.
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