Its emergence in the history of the planet, beginning intensively (on the scale of historical time) a few tens of thousands of years ago, is an event of great importance in the history of our planet.
The emergence of the noosphere in the history of the planet, beginning intensively (on the scale of historical time) a few tens of thousands of years ago, is an event of great importance in the history of our planet.
Life in all of its manifestations, the manifestation of the human individual included, radically changes the biosphere in such a degree that not only the agglomeration of indivisible units of life, but, in a few problems, also the single human individual in the noosphere could not be left without attention in the biosphere.
The brain of Paleolithic man does not differ in any significant degree in its structure from the brain of contemporary man. At the same time, there is no doubt that the mind of that man from the Paleolithic for this species of Homo cannot bear comparison to the mind of contemporary man. Thence it follows that the mind is a complex social structure, built, for the man of our times, just as for the Paleolithic man, upon the same nervous substrate, but in a different social setting.
We cannot overlook the fact that uninterrupted connection—material and energetic of the living organism with the biosphere, a completely definite connection, “geologically eternal,” which can be scientifically expressed precisely—is always present in our very scientific approach to life and must be reflected in all of our logical conclusions and results about it.
The discovery of fire is the first case of a living organism mastering and harnessing a force of nature.