At 08:20 PM 4/1/2008 -0700, David C. Harris wrote: >If you don't already know about the semi-religious concept of "the >Noosphere", see >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere . My god, of course, that's it! The bees are being uplifted ahead of us into Teilhard's Hive Mind (well, really, we should have expected it). Damien Broderick