The Noosphere is not just a local phenomenon. It is actually a stage with a specific place in the evolution of cosmic consciousness, a stage that is universally dispersed throughout the cosmos.
—Jose Arguelles, Manifesto for the Noosphere

The biosphere represents our total life support system, while the noosphere is the planetary mind. 

The biosphere-noosphere transition marks the point when the consciousness of the planet goes from the cosmic unconscious to the cosmic conscious. This transition signifies a specific geological-evolutionary event

This moment was first jointly defined and anticipated by V.I. Vernadsky, a Russian scientist whose whole-systems geochemical work defined the biosphere, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit paleontologist. Together, they coined the term in Paris, 1926.

For both, the noosphere (the planet's mental envelope) resulted from a critical point in terrestrial evolution. Vernadsky defined this point by the crisis he labeled as "biogeochemical combustion." This refers to the impact of industrial technologies and civilization on the biosphere's resources and cycles, pushing it to a fever-pitch of crisis. This crisis results in a qualitative shift into the noosphere and the commencement of the Psychozoic Era.

For Teilhard de Chardin, the noosphere is preceded by the development of a planetary information network, which then also becomes the last material-technological threshold to cross before reaching an "Omega point." This Omega point, also linked with the mystical body of Christ, symbolizes the entrance of humanity, and the planet, into the noosphere, the Earth's Mind.

The discovery of the Law of Time affirms that the criteria for the biosphere-noosphere transition set by both Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin have converged.

Jose Arguelles put forth that the transition from the biosphere to the noosphere occurs through an intermediary stage known as the technosphere. The technosphere is the artificial layer of technology that emerged from the biosphere and now permeates the Planet. 

Arguelles predicted that the artificial technosphere would eventually culminate in the awakened noosphere, the planetary sphere of thought, and its collective intelligence.

The conscious manifestation of the Noosphere is a cosmic event with a basis in  the universal pattern of evolution.
—Jose Arguelles, Manifesto for the Noosphere

To learn more about the biosphere-noosphere transition see: It’s not a Biosphere Crisis it’s a Noosphere Emergency.

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Foundation for the Law of Time