A device to tap into global consciousness...

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A device to tap into global consciousness...

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Or so the story goes.

An article titled "The capitalisation of the future" published in 2012 in the journal "Economics and Law" argues that the economy and society have become too complex for traditional methods of government to manage.
A new method needs to be developed to deal with modern economies and societies and allegedly, a device exists that can do just that.
To quote the BBC article I link to below, "The article describes a new device called a "nooscope" which, it says, can tap into global consciousness and "detect and register changes in the biosphere and in human activity".

BBC article http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37109169

The nooscope is, to me, obviously a device for tapping into the noosphere. The noosphere, literally translated as "mind-sphere" is broadly described as the sphere of human thought and more precisely defined as "a postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships".

Postulated...
Ah so, it's all theoretical. So the nooscope is a device for tapping into something that three philosophers inthe 1920s thought might exist but had absolutely no proof of any such thing.
Some would describe it as new-age belief. Some might call it philosophical wishful thinking.
Others might call it snake-oil.
But apparently Vladimir Putin's latest adviser is touting the nooscope as a way to manage the country. Putin's latest adviser is the man who wrote "The capitalisation of the future".
Wiki article on noosphere It's a short article and worth reading to understand just how much it's a mix of parapsychology, religion and obsolete scientific thought.

For anyone who ever played the computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl to the end, the noosphere will be recognizable. A neat mcguffin based in wishful thinking and it's worrying and maybe even a little frightening that a country as powerful as Russia would actually entertain the idea that this thing could be used to make national policy decisions.

But what if it was true? What if the noosphere actually existed and the device actually worked? The Dark Ones could be tapping into human consciousness and subtly altering our thoughts to be more accepting of violence & anger, less aware of Minions...
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Re: A device to tap into global consciousness...

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Sounds a bit like the Jungian collective unconscious?
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Re: A device to tap into global consciousness...

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Pretty much, with the difference being that the noosphere is supposedly the collective conscious as well as the unconscious and also the personal conscious and personal unconscious... the collective experience of humanity, as a group and as individuals, conscious and unconscious etc. etc. etc. <insert appropriate psycho-babble here>
Again supposedly, those individuals trained to do so, could tap into the noosphere and access the information contained therein. And then we get the claims such as from Putin's adviser that devices can be made to access and even influence the noosphere and thus influence or even control individuals and groups.
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