Fire Gaia
The Earth itself isn’t alive. Kill trees, smelt metal, be smug and smile all you like – but just because God isn’t watching you, doesn’t mean Earth is. Please forget the Gaia Hypothesis. Wishful thinking isn’t science.
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Interactors can be communities, ecosystems or even whole biospheres – so good idea, keep it.
The guy behind the idea admitted he was wrong about the earth being alive and about to die. However, loads of people now think that’s a real possibility. Not sure if its a bad idea or not, let’s see, I guess.
Not so fast – Covid is a sign that “nature” is out to take us out.
The chances of life and environment spontaneously organising into self-regulating states may be much higher than you would expect. If fact, given sufficient biodiversity, it may be extremely likely. But there is a limit to this stability. Push the system too far and it may go beyond a tipping point and rapidly collapse to a new and potentially very different state.
Fire Gaia
(5 upvotes)The idea of Gaia, the Earth is a self-regulating system
(4 upvotes)“Material genes were identified with gene tokens and informational genes with gene types … Continuity resides in the recursive representation of immortal pattern by ephemeral avatars …
Darwinising Gaia’ would also have some political benefits. It might encourage us to look at nature as a coherent whole, with an evolutionary trajectory that we can foster or deflect as we choose. After all, we are already doing that, whether we realise it or not.”