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The Phenomenon of Man (French: Le phénomène humain) is an essay by the French geologist, paleontologist, philosopher, and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness .
John Perry Barlow. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] ⓘ; 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher, and teacher. He was Darwinian and progressive in outlook and the author of several influential theological and philosophical books.
The Omega Point is a theorized future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification. The term was invented by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). [1] Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian Logos, namely Christ, who draws all things into ...
Scientific explanations consider the phenomenon a coping mechanism or an example of bicameral mentality. [3] The concept was popularized by a 2009 book by John G. Geiger, The Third Man Factor, which documents scores of examples. Modern psychologists have used the "third man factor" to treat victims of trauma.
Pareidolia (/ ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər -/; [1] also US: / ˌpɛəraɪ -/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia. Common examples include perceived images of ...
Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being. [1][2][3] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies ...
This article is about philosophical anthropology. For other uses, see Anthropology (disambiguation). Vitruvian Man or the perfect man by Leonardo da Vinci. Philosophical anthropology, sometimes called anthropological philosophy, [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a discipline dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person. [ 3 ...
The sort of phenomenon that is greater than the knowledge that we have of it. Being-for-itself (être-pour-soi): The nihilation of Being-in-itself; consciousness conceived as a lack of Being, a desire for Being, a relation of Being. The For-itself brings Nothingness into the world and therefore can stand out from Being and form attitudes ...