noun A theoretical layer formed by human thought, reason and awareness, seen as a stage in evolution.
- The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth.
— Esther Inglis-Arkell, What comes next after the Noosphere? (2012)
- This creates a pattern of homesteading in the noosphere that rather resembles that of settlers spreading into a physical frontier—not random, but like a diffusion-limited fractal.
— , Homesteading the Noosphere (2001)
- I used to have a pretty clear idea of God. Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out. Three unpersons in one anthropomorphic noosphere.
— Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers (1980)
