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I'm not quite sure how to explain it, but no, the noosphere doesn't quite work the same way as the warp in that sense. The noosphere does change to reflect humanity but it is both a lot more specific and a lot more abstract about it if that makes any sense (Think computer science and psychology over religion/theology, emotion, and sorcery). Noospheric entities are anthropomorphized data structures and walking sets of ideas composed of raw 1s and 0s, where as the warp entities are embodiments of belief and faith. Gods of the noosphere are the equivalent of entire malignant cultures on 5 legs, where as Chaos Gods are the corrupted background radiation of all life in existence and other warp gods are pantheons produced by the Faith and belief systems of whole civilizations. I realize this sounds like I'm rambling, but I'm getting somewhere with this. I'm trying to get this point across without writing an 18 paragraph bible.
As weird as this sounds, wiping out humanity won't really wipe out the noosphere, at least not in the way you would think it does. It will obviously effect it, a really major and likely negative one, but not in the same way that wiping out all intelligent life in 40k would effect the Warp. When no one believes in or has the feelings associated with a given warp entity, they fade away and die, but even when you do the equivalent of that to most of the informational entities (eliminate all their anchors) they won't go down, and those that do simply lose their structural integrity and fall apart. The existence of both Dead Memes and Free Memes also proves implicitly that simply wiping out all of humanity would destroy the noosphere. We do not get many views of the noosphere after humanity has been wiped out, due to usually being unrelated to the means by which humanity was wiped out this Tuesday, so we will unfortunately have to focus on the time(s) noospheric entities committed genocide against humanity. Even when 3125 had wiped out all of humanity (just to be clear, it didn't "kill" them, it turned them into bags of flesh incompatible with any ideas not related to 3125, essentially all human thought) the ideas still existed enough for the star fish to gorge itself on them. The noosphere still existed even if it was of course very different once 3125 had taken it over, and despite the state of existence being apocalyptic. Let's contrast with the Scarlet King, who in his battle turned the thing inside out and was basically destroyed. The event described in the original article makes it sound as if quick-space (quick-space is to informational/head space as realspace is to the warp) even collapsed in with the noosphere, which is not what usually happens when all of humanity is wiped out lol. Whatever happened there is clearly a different phenomenon then whatever usually happens when all of humanity is wiped out.
I would also like to point out that its not like the entire noosphere is wiped clean and reset every time humanity gets wiped out, unless SCP-2000 goes ahead and rebuilds the entire noosphere. I could break down the evidence from the identity warfare primer on why that is literally impossible if you would like and also hard proof of at least 1 activation of SCP-2000 following a different fifthist genocide in the timeline of the extended canon that includes the antimemetics division, but I would like to keep this as short as I reasonably can.
