The Noosphere and Unstructured Text Data Analysis

Finished Teilhard’s Phenomenon of Man. The Noogenesis and Noosphere concepts are those which have plenty of room for further theoretical elaboration and Teilhard states this in his book, humbly, which is a rare admission for a philosopher. So it is puzzling to me that no one other than Arguelles, as far as I know, has taken a deep dive into the concept. The Noosphere theory is essentially an early variation of what many are terming the Singularity today. In Teilhard’s parlance it was The Omega Point. It can also be interpreted, in my mind, as equatable to the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. That the concept in Teilhard’s description owed much of its construction to the “tree of life” structure is even more compelling to me. And I mean that in the sense of a seemingly possible subconscious archetype that functions as a concept which is permeating the minds of many thinkers in the 20th and 21st centuries. This is why data analysis of unstructured text is important – it can determine sentiment, categorized and visualized on a mass basis. A basis which consists of almost the entirety of written thought, which is close to the entirety of all human thoughts. For argument’s sake let’s say the whole entirety of human thought can be represented as 100%. How much of that makes it way to the written word? Let’s say 10%. This would still be a statistically relevant sample of human sentiment on a massive scale. Of that 10% can we glean cohesive determinations of what people are thinking about? What psychological and sociological insights would that give us?