The Silver Surfer will have been proved right I've heard of Vladimir Vernadsky's 'noosphere' before, but never quite understood it. In the wake of Yuri Gargarin's first journey into space, shouting 'Poyehali!' let's go! - after Chuck Yeager skimmed its edge in the X-1 , the ideas of Russian Cosmism have come to my attention. Cosmism is beginning to make sense, as I am increasingly aware that 'mind stuff' (1) is not 'brain stuff'. We are mind stuff, we observe matter - the paradox of Ouroubouros a clear metaphor for this philosophical conundrum. The Cosmicists idea of a living sun, evidenced by extremely complex coronal activity, would make sense intuitively. We would all be living within the sun's noosphere. Think of all the solar religions of human history . Perhaps they were onto something after all. Science Fiction has already explored this possibility, of course. Stanislaw Lem in Solaris and Frank Herbert
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