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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 * 1881 in Orcines/Clermont-Ferrand
+ 1955 in New York

   

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest
who trained as a paleontologist and geologist.
He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point
(a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving).


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