In a concept like the noosphere there is already implied the topology of a sphere, a sort of cortical shell of massive interconnections surrounding the earth, that spinning solid sphere-like object suspended in space, and oneself then as a sort of neuron within that recursive structure, somehow containing and contained by the whole. Alternatively one might think of it as a tree, with each individual as a bud or terminal node, facing out into a free emptiness but connected to the whole only backwards, the synthetic plane being deep in the trunk, almost inaccessibly upstream and extending even further and dependent on a complex of roots hidden deep in darkness, in a mysterious mirror of what appears.