Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de (1956), The Appearance of Man, Retrieved on 2016-06-15
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    15 JUN 2016

     The Singularity of the Human Species

    The singularity of the human species, 1 the study and defence of which form the plan of this work, stands out principally in the actual characteristics of what we shall call in these pages the Noosphere (or thinking envelope) of the earth. But just because, forming a true singularity (and not a simple irregularity) in evolutionary matter, humanity is born not by an accident but from the prolonged play of the forces of cosmogenesis, its roots must theoretically be recognisable (as in fact they...
    Folksonomies: evolution science culture
    Folksonomies: evolution science culture
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    15 JUN 2016

     The Noosphere

    Under the impact of this passage from simple to squared numbers, we all become aware that the entrance is open for the hominised consciousness into a new inner world: the world of the Universe as thought. But do we sufficiently notice that simultaneously, in the realm of the measurable and tangible, another form of ' generalisation '—also as the result of reflexion — becomes possible and outlines itself: no longer simply for our knowledge, the systematised perception of total time and total s...
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