#NOOSPHERE

[panda-hammer]

Listening to this almost daily while working, and my colleagues are surprised that I am the only one without any printing or computer issues... Omnissiah protects. Now, don't forget to always be on good terms with your local tech-priests and bring them small gifts.

[victusinveritas]

[sefusneezed]

So you know how forge worlds have a cyberspace called the noosphere that's basically the internet? What are Katrumarius and Lyrane's noosphere profile/home-pages like?

I got self indulgent oc shitposts about this mostly kat because i dont think lyrane is a social media kinda guy

noosphere is just boomer facebook thats my headcanon

[thirdity]

Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. For in fact, pure spirituality is as unconceivable as pure materiality. Just as, in a sense, there is no geometrical point, but as many structurally different points as there are methods of deriving them from different figures, so every spirit derives its reality and nature from a particular type of universal synthesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe

[crayfish-contingency]

what you gonna do now

i forgot that sock became entirely devoid of biological sex because i simply wanted to entertain the idea of something defying any understanding of biological needs. at first in frustration at gender inequality, then just to mess with people. Sock was created as a space station 13 character at first and so many people loved him for being what he is. A pseudo reptilian with his oldest memory being his name. Sock, that's it. nothing else, no family, no place of origin, just a name, and faint dreams of a desert. Getting upset at the other crewmembers for asking how he was even alive, or how his body handled- *clears throat* - waste management...

Any teasing of him being either more masculine or efeminate, sliding past his smooth brain. Or questions about his anatomy being rebounded by another question (illustrated above). And yet despite being loud and obnoxious, people liked him a lot. No catboy head of security, bossing you around. Not the nanotrasen representative asking you why you would ever give a mime all access. Just your head of personel, Sock. Announcing over the intercom that eating crewmembers of another species in times of need is not a criminal offense. And after that he has a deep, touching conversation with you about why the rest of command sucks. funniest of all was that this was on an ERP server and people got really sad when i left. turns out sex is just boring...

[noosphe-re]

The end of the world : the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality. The end of the world : the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, fulfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega. The end of the world : critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and escape.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

[aleph-trix]

Pataphysical Interpretation of the Noosphere - a small SCP Foundation ramble/thought exercise

If you’ve delved deep into the articles and pages of the SCP Wiki, you are most likely familiar with several concepts that have been created as the site progressed and are the basis of a more modern way interactions with the anomalous are presented in various stories and articles. Before, anomalies were presented from the viewpoint of the Foundation’s baseline science. Now, the Foundation has created new anomalous sciences and terminology to properly understand anomalies and their interactions. Akiva radiation, thaumaturgy, EVE etc.

One of these new terminology is the noosphere. Now the noosphere is not a strictly SCP-exclusive concept. It was created by a biogeochemist and a priest/philosopher to describe what they called “the planetary sphere of reason”. In the SCP Wiki, the concept was introduced through the Antimemetics Division set of series: being used in the way it is now first in SCP-2111 and becoming integral to later interpretations of SCP-3125. So what exactly is the Noosphere? There are a lot of answers but SCP-6659, has in my opinion, the most clear cut answer: the Noosphere is a plane of existence embodying abstract human thought. Most of the time it seems less to be psychological in nature and rather more metaphysical in nature relating to memetics and antimemetics. It is inhabited by various constructs and concepts, often memetic in nature with some being embodied and personified through deities, manifestations and totems.

Dialing back a bit here, pataphysics is another anomalous science-related term. It refers to an anomalous science that focuses primarily on the fictionality of the SCP universe from the perspective of its characters, often it focuses on stuff such as narrative layers as well as components of narratives and how they emerge in a scientific presentation from the perspective of those within the narrative. Usually, it is essentially metafiction.

What this ramble is about, and this is just my interpretation mind you (there is no correct interpretation or headcanon to the SCPverse), is a way in which these two concepts intercept.

Memes are often considered base units of culture or information, the same way genes are base units of biological information. But there exist other base units of information within other disciplines. Particularly, narremes which are the base unit of narratives.

If the noopshere is the realm of memetic constructs and concepts such as pain, chaos or life and it exists within a universe that is in fact a narrative then what if the noosphere is a reflection of that narrative’s conceptual abstract state?

To communicate this idea more clearly: narratives and stories often have themes which are usually related to concepts and ideas. These can be represented in the story through characters, themes, events, groups etc.

In Chaos Theory (SCP-6747), we learn about pataphysical particles and how they link and interact together to create narratives and as such. What if the noosphere is a medium for thematic narratives to emerge by taking abstract ideas and concepts and constructing narratives out of them, influencing the people and settings in them.

In this interpretation, the noosphere could be seen as an abstraction of the narrative. A conceptual, lesser form of it.

This entire ramble was just formed from my weird thoughts and I could’ve definitely misinterpreted a lot of things I’ve read from articles but hey you win some, you lose some. I mainly just wanted to make this so I could look at it later if I ever wanted inspiration for my own stories

[jocrude]

SKETCH FOR THE INVERSE NAMEDROP LAW:

(I COULD GO ON ABOUT THIS, BUT I WON'T NOW)

There are certain people whose mental (intellectual, creative, etc.) output is so great that it can be associated with a concept or idea.

The more someone namedrops these people, the less likely they are to have seriously engaged with the thinker they're namedropping.

In film/art criticism, take David Lynch for example. Pseudointellectuals like to describe everything that's remotely surreal as "Lynchian." David Lynch has a very particular type of surrealism, revolving around the distortion of illusionary "suburban/small town" Americana, often with domestic violence or violence against women as a major theme, typically incorporating (American) oldies music and borrowings from Soap Operas and Old Hollywood. But David Lynch is a great artist, so pseudointellectuals will describe everything that's surreal as "Lynchian." They want to associate their commentary with a personality rather than a concept, because personalities are easier to invoke than concepts.

[azspot]

In the noosphere, though, I think it’s this: it’s other people. My (geographical, national, regional) neighbors in the real world seem further away in an expansionary noosphere, because the growing space between them is filled with people who are more like me. In the beginning of the Internet, we called the gathering together of these new folks, “intentional communities”. It was going to be great. Finally, if you like collecting paintings of buffalo, you could attract and meet other buffalo-painting fans, even if there were just three of you in the world. They would gravitate toward you, sashaying weightlessly toward the like-minded. And it was great! For the first time, we met people just like us on the Internet, as opposed to the geographically proximate people we bumped into on our street, who are sort of like us, but they support the wrong football team and aren’t as clever (or are too clever), and they think 15 minute cities are good, and while occasionally they are part of buffalo-painting fandom, they’re in the terribly wrong part of buffalo-painting fandom. And they live a few blocks away, and my internet friends are just there, in a city that’s always less than 150ms away. Rather than being stuck with the sort-of-akin in my own town, I can find the people who are just like me, from around the world.

An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere

[tagedeszorns]

I wonder... which one of the main crew has caused the most ammount of noosphere restrictions?

Like Fabius be like.. No Internet for you.

Apparently everybody had fun, until Duco gave an example of an Nostraman practical joke, offended Ramos with it and Saqqara went on a religious spree in a totally fruitless attempt to calm the waters. So Fabius changed the password and nobody won.

[omegaphilosophia]

The Philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher, developed the concept of the Omega Point as a vision of cosmic and spiritual evolution. His philosophy fuses evolutionary theory, Christian theology, and mystical spirituality to propose that the universe is moving toward a final point of unification and consciousness—the Omega Point.

Core Ideas of the Omega Point

1. Evolution as a Spiritual Process Teilhard did not see evolution as merely biological. He believed evolution is cosmic and spiritual, beginning with matter and moving through increasing complexity toward consciousness. Humanity represents a critical phase in this process—a species that is not only evolving physically but becoming aware of itself.

2. The Noosphere Above the biosphere (the realm of biological life), Teilhard proposed the noosphere—the sphere of human thought and consciousness. It is a global, collective mental layer in which human minds are interconnected, and ideas, knowledge, and spiritual awareness expand.

3. The Omega Point as Cosmic Fulfillment The Omega Point is the final destination of evolution—a state of maximum complexity and consciousness, where all individual consciousnesses converge. Teilhard equated this point with Christ in a transcendent, cosmic form. It is not merely an end, but the fulfillment and unification of creation, where matter and spirit become one.

4. Christogenesis Teilhard believed that the world is undergoing a process of Christogenesis—the birth and evolution of the cosmic Christ. Unlike traditional theology that sees Christ only as a historical figure, Teilhard’s Christ is the divine force drawing the world toward the Omega Point, integrating faith with a teleological view of the universe.

[blackcoffeedreams]

[ronk]

Doing Intention

Doing Intention - noetic theory

Photo by clark cruz on Pexels.com I don’t really feel guilty that I have read Dan Brown’s books – Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code, The Lost Symbol. As an English major and teacher for many years, I have read a lot of the books that get shelved on the “Literature” shelves, so some fast “Fiction” reads are completely justified. I like that Brown touches on a lot of other books and topics that…

[crayfish-contingency]

Finally got a design im comfterble with for the lycans, human lyndwurm hybrids created through forbidden alchemy by one of the thirteen dragons.

It's just another sneak peak sketch for now, but im excited to be designing so many things again!

I used gorgonops and family as references as i did not want to just make wolf/hyena men.

[noosphe-re]

By virtue of the quality and the biological properties of thought, we find ourselves situated at a singular point, at a ganglion which commands the whole fraction of the cosmos that is at present within reach of our experience. Man, the centre of perspective, is at the same time the centre of construction of the universe. And by expediency no less than by necessity, all science must be referred back to him. If to see is really to become more, if vision is really fuller being, then we should look closely at man in order to increase our capacity to live.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man