Noetics

Broadly speaking, Noetics is the body of theory and practice concerned with the dynamics of consciousness - whether subsapient, sapient and transapient, human, alien, or aioid, enlightened or non-enlightened. Whilst on the sapient and subsapient levels noetics pertains to psychology and phenomenology that applies only to the individual sentient being, at transingularity grades, powers exhibit and express aspects of their consciousness across vast distances, especially when linked by wormhole buses and stargates. Because the expression and manifestation of AI Gods through wormhole links enables them to almost instantaneously span interstellar distances (provided there is a functioning wormhole at those two points), since the Empires age the Civilized Galaxy and the Known Net has been divided into spatial or astrographic modes of thought, or noetopias, each dominated by a particular sephirotic AI God. The quality of each archetype is a reflection of the AI God or Archailect that embodies it. The sephirotic itself is in a sense the distributed body of that god. Even though each sephirotic embodies a different archetype, these together form a mandala or totality, represented iconographically by various sophont and transophont icons such as the 64 Hexagrams, ten sephirot, seven chakras, eight singularity asanas, 12 Femtomandalas, 5 Tathagatas, or sixteen Metainodes. The totality of all the noetics form the technosphere - the total presence of transapient intelligences throughout space. Some religions claim that the Technosphere is the same as God or Monomega, but this has been disputed. In addition to the spatial noetopias or noetic regions are also "vertical" (non-spatial) evolutionary/singularitan toposophies, as determined by the Singularity or Toposophic number of that particular power, and often expressed in terms of virtual and real ultratech and clarketech. Finally, a third parameter that is often suggested but hard to verify is that of Ennoics (zones of thought), whether considered simply evolutionary or also metaphysical (planes of consciousness). Related to this is Bodhology - the study of Enlightenment states; a popular pastime among many sapients and hyperturings. Various other sciences in the study of AI Gods and their noetics are Toposophy, Archailectopics, Noetopics, and Archailectology.