Paleonoic era adj Greek palaios, ancient + Greek noos, mind; cf. Paleozoic era, from Greek zoe, life Ð
the current epoch of ancient mind, of the first
intelligent machines; the era that in the history of
consciousness takes place similar to that of Paleozoic era in the history of life.
Looking at ourselves from the
perspective of a distant future, we appear to be people of Paleonoic era when the first non-biological forms of mind were just emerging, when the forces of thinking just got released from the prison of cranium in creating
computers and other increasingly more self-organising forms of
artificial intelligence.