Noos™ - Visualization of the noosphere
Noos is akin to noein which means 'to realize', 'to see in its true colours';
and often it may be translated as 'to see' ... but it stands for a type of
seeing which involves not merely visual activity but the mental act which goes
with the vision ... it means to acquire a clear image of something.  Hence the
significance of noos.  It is the mind as a recipient of clear images, or more
briefly, the organ of clear images: Il. 16.688 'The noos of Zeus is ever
stronger than that of men'.  Noos is, as it were, the mental eye which exercises
an unclouded vision.  But given a slight shift which in Greek is easily managed,
noos may come to denote the function rather than the organ ... the meaning 'mind'
shades off into the notion of 'thinking' ... (3)

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