IN AND. Vernadsky: noosphere as a science

One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, the author of world-famous works on mineralogy and geochemistry. Since the 10-ies of the last century, V.I. Vernadsky is increasingly focusing on the Earth's biosphere. After all, many geological processes are based on the formation of the influence of solar heat and atmospheric oxygen. Not only organic minerals (oil, coal, hydrates, etc.) are of biological origin. Inorganic minerals also reflect the impact of biomass on them.

Since the 1920s, he has spoken about the influence on the course of natural processes not specifically of nature, but of the purposeful activity of man. By their work, the working masses imperceptibly and gradually became a series of powerful geological forces. So the notion of the noosphere came into being. Vernadsky understands the modern biosphere, part of which is humanity. Before people, he said, before their thoughts and work, the question was raised about renewing the biosphere in favor of civilization as a single organism.

As V.I. Vernadsky, the noosphere is the newest geological shell of the planet, which is created on the basis of a scientific approach. It is viewed as the result of the action of two revolutionary processes united in a single stream: in the field of scientific thought and in the sphere of social relations. Therefore, the noosphere according to Vernadsky is created as a consequence of a strong alliance of those factors that serve as the basis for these processes, in other words - the unity of science and the working masses.

Vernadsky, the noosphere of which, like the doctrine, is evolving in our days, connects it with the action of even more phenomena: the unity of the biosphere and humanity, the unification of the human race, the activity of people is of a planetary nature, it is also commensurate with geological processes, the purposeful development of forms of communication, The desire for peace between nations, unprecedented successes in science and technology. By summarizing these factors, inextricably linking the further evolution of nature with the development of civilization, VI introduces it. Vernadsky "noosphere" as a concept.

However, the views of the scientist did not coincide with the then ideology of the state. For example, in the Minor Soviet Encyclopedia (1934), it is described as an idealist philosophy. In scientific works he is characterized by the ideology of the "neutralism" of science, he defends religion, mysticism, while denying the materialist dialectic. In addition to reason, as Vernadsky argued, the noosphere also has the driving force of the people's spirit, or its "biofield." This remark is not devoid of soil, since it was noted that natural disasters occur in places of popular unrest. And only these days, these assumptions have been experimentally confirmed.

Ideas Vernadsky ahead of the author's life. Only now, in the context of a critical aggravation of problems that are global in nature, his words become clear. Democracy, a democratic approach to the organization of public life, the evolution of culture, science and the revival of the people's life, a thorough revision of the approach to nature management - all this makes up the noosphere. The fate of the Earth and the fate of mankind is one fate.