This is a difficult idea to swallow.

Every complex organism has as a whole

an intelligence greater than any one of its paths

and that we shall find ourselves increasingly organized

by an intelligence system

that is not under our conscious direction

but will make us feel, I suppose,

rather as our individual cells feel inside our bodies.

The Transportation Communications Network.

Aircraft, radio, television, telephone.

These taken together are constituting a global net

which might be said to be something like

Tilehader Shardan's idea of the noosphere.

The Earth as a geosphere is covered with a biosphere

that is the sphere of living organisms.

The biosphere in turn generates the noosphere

which is the communication network that we call the mind

through literature, through speech, through radio and television communication.

The noosphere is slowly realised.

All these technological creations

are extensions of the human organism

and finally the electronic network of telephone,

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