====== An Illustrative Example of the Noosphere ======

Earlier I mentioned that most branches of Neoshamanism regard the noosphere as a spiritual phenomenon rather than an abstract concept as envisioned in the Bright Way.



Further, Neoshamanists believe that all consciousness emanates from the noosphere, and that consciousness can manifest to a greater or lesser degree in a physical system depending on that system's complexity. The brain of a sophont is a very complex physical system, so it serves as the perfect vessel for consciousness.



Every idea that has ever or will ever or even could ever exist also resides fully formed within the noosphere. When a sophont thinks of something new, they're not inventing it, they're discovering that corner of noosphere where it had always existed. The noosphere is a churning chaos of white noise that occasionally resolves into something intelligible. To fathom the depths of the noosphere is like tuning the dial on a short-wave radio, with snatches of words or music fading in and out of the noise.



This portion of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber|Hellschreiber]] QSO I found the other day between two people in Florida provides a very nice visual of what I'm thinking.



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