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... noosphere: a film of 'mind' that is now spreading around the earth, forming a distinct, increasingly unified layer of conscious cerebration. This process he calls the "unification, technification, growing rationalization of the human ...
... noosphere: a film of 'mind' that is now spreading around the earth, forming a distinct, increasingly unified layer of conscious cerebration. This process he calls the "unification, technification, growing rationalization of the human ...
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... noosphere. At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super-brain, all-knowing, all-powerful. In creating this far-from-Ioving God, man will have de-created Nature and destroyed himself. Anything like a ...
... noosphere. At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super-brain, all-knowing, all-powerful. In creating this far-from-Ioving God, man will have de-created Nature and destroyed himself. Anything like a ...
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... noosphere,' 316 Eichmann, Adolph, 279 Eight-hour day, 147 Einstein, Albert, 255, 256 Eiseley, Loren, 60, 381 Electricity, Hawthorne's intuitions about, 314 Electronic Age, McLuhan's belated interpretation of, 296 Electronic dissociation ...
... noosphere,' 316 Eichmann, Adolph, 279 Eight-hour day, 147 Einstein, Albert, 255, 256 Eiseley, Loren, 60, 381 Electricity, Hawthorne's intuitions about, 314 Electronic Age, McLuhan's belated interpretation of, 296 Electronic dissociation ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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