Omega point theory
Origin: Gr. ὦμέγα, Lat. punctum, Gr. θεωρία
Omega point is a term invented by French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the ultimate maximum level of complexity of consciousness, considered the aim towards which consciousness evolves. Rather than divinity being found "in the heavens" he held that evolution was a process converging toward a "final unity", identical with the Eschaton and with God. According to Chardin and the Russian scholar and biologist Vladimir Vernadsky (author of The Geosphere 1924 and The Biosphere 1926), the planet is in a transformative process, metamorphosing from the biosphere into the noosphere.
Spanish: Teoría del punto omega
Sources and references
- Macer, Darryl ,“UNESCO Bioethics Dictionary”cited 74 times
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