The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth. De Chardin described the process best. First there was the geosphere, the inanimate matter that made up the rock of the world and the gas around it. Then there was the biosphere, the ever-changing biochemical make-up of life and its effect on the world around it. Finally there was the noosphere, when one of these biological creatures developed the mental and practical power to change the world in ways that no other creature could.
“It is conceivable for cognition to be a property of a system with integrated nonbiological components,” Cross and Jackson write. “That seems to be where Homo sapiens is headed.”
But who is teaching the Noosphere how to manage global emotions? The answer is … nobody! As Paul Virilio wrote, we are “facing the emergence of a real, collective madness reinforced by the synchronization of emotions: the sudden globalization of affects in real time that hits all of humanity at the same time.”
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The Earth’s Heartbeat
The Earth’s heartbeat cannot be heard with your ears. It is comprised of extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves that cycle almost eight times per second (8 Hertz). Although, like many other heartbeats, it is regulated by electrical impulses. And, lightning is its origin.
Lightning flashes about 50 times every second on earth discharging bursts of ultra-low-frequency energy into the atmosphere. These waves become trapped between the ground and the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Some of these waves dissipate while others coalesce and become stronger, ultimately creating a beating pulse of electromagnetic waves around the planet. Scientists call this heartbeat Schumann Resonance after the physicist Winfried Otto Schumann who predicted it mathematically in 1952. It wasn’t until the 60’s that an adequate analysis technique became available to extract the resonance information from background noise. Since then there has been increasing interests in...
Hyperobjects In The Ecological Thought, Morton employed the term hyperobjects to describe objects that are so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend spatiotemporal specificity, such as global warming, styrofoam, and radioactive plutonium.[5] They have subsequently enumerated five characteristics of hyperobjects: Viscous: Hyperobjects adhere to any other object they touch, no matter how hard an object tries to resist. In this way, hyperobjects overrule ironic distance, meaning that the more an object tries to resist a hyperobject, the more glued to the hyperobject it becomes.[31] Molten: Hyperobjects are so massive that they refute the idea that spacetime is fixed, concrete, and consistent.[32] Nonlocal: Hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space to the extent that their totality cannot be realized in any particular local manifestation. For example, global warming is a hyperobject which impacts meteorological conditions, such as tornado formation....
What is time dilation in the mind? Anxious people, or those in great fear, experience greater "time dilation" in response to the same threat stimuli due to higher levels of epinephrine, which increases brain activity (an adrenaline rush). In such circumstances, an illusion of time dilation could assist an effective escape.
