Thread by @CourtenayTurner

There’s a straight line IMO from HG Wells World Brain, Oliver Reiser’s Cosmic Humanism, to Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth, to SRI’s Changing Images of Man, to David Temple’s First Values First Principles of Evolving Perenialism.

Here’s a thread 🧵 tracing the intellectual through-line from planetary mind and collective intelligence to evolving humanism, incorporating Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin as foundational figures.

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The Evolution of Planetary Consciousness: A Hidden Thread 🧵
A remarkable lineage of thinkers envisioned humanity evolving toward unified global mind, cosmic purpose, and conscious planetary stewardship.
From the Noosphere to CosmoErotic Humanism, here’s the through-line.

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Édouard Le Roy, alongside Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, helped coin the term noosphere, conceptualizing it as Earth's thinking layer, a stage where human consciousness and knowledge become a dominant geological force, transforming the biosphere. Le Roy, a French philosopher and mathematician, saw this as humanity's collective mind shaping the planet, a concept later linked to cyberspace and the internet as its material manifestation, representing a new evolutionary stage of planetary development.

Vladimir Vernadsky (1920s–1940s) like Chardin was influenced by Edouard Le Roy, was a Russian scientist who defined the biosphere — life transforming the planet — and foresaw the noosphere: a sphere of human thought enveloping Earth, where collective reason guides evolution.
The seed of planetary mind.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Jesuit paleontologist) spiritualized it.
In The Phenomenon of Man (1955), he described evolution converging toward the Omega Point — a unified global consciousness.
The noosphere becomes a sacred emergence of love and complexity.

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H.G. Wells (1938) secularized the dream in World Brain.
He called for a permanent world encyclopedia — a networked planetary knowledge system to organize human affairs and prevent catastrophe.
Early vision of collective intelligence as governance.

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Oliver Reiser fused science and mysticism in Cosmic Humanism (1960s–70s).
He explicitly built on Vernadsky and Chardin, locating the “world brain” in Earth’s electromagnetic fields.
Humanity must integrate into a cosmic whole — scientific pantheism meets global unity.

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Buckminster Fuller made it practical with Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969).
Earth is a finite spacecraft; we need comprehensive design science to manage resources synergistically.
Implicit noospheric stewardship — humanity as crew of one ship.

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The 1974 (final edition published in 1984) SRI report Changing Images of Man (Markley & Harman) synthesized these threads.
It explored how society’s self-image must evolve — toward transpersonal, ecological, evolutionary consciousness (directly citing Chardin).
A blueprint for intentional cultural transformation.

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Today, David J. Temple (collective pseudonym, primarily Marc Gafni & Zak Stein) extends it in First Principles and First Values (2024).
CosmoErotic Humanism: evolving perennialism that roots intimacy, value, and purpose in Reality itself — responding to the meta-crisis with shared story and a new anthro-ontology that rewrites the story of the universe transforming Homo sapiens into Homo Amor. open.substack.com/pub/courtenayt…

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The through-line:
Biosphere → Noosphere → World Brain → Cosmic Humanism → Spaceship Earth → Transformative Image of Man → Evolving CosmoErotic Humanism.
A century-long arc toward conscious planetary evolution.

We’re living inside this unfolding.
They want us to co-create the super-organism of humanity where we’re all nodes connected via SMART villages, Network States, using the IoT, IoE that with 6g will create digital twinning and socio-technical cyber-physical systems where we are all cybernetically nudged in a tokenized, gamified techno feudal world that is transhuman leading to post-human technological singularity!!! Is this a world you want???

(Amazon links to all the books are above!☝️).