Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2017-2018) <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjoriikka_Ylisiurua>
Time: Friday April 27, 14h-16h Place: *room * *D.1.07*, VUB ------------------------------ Steps to the Mind of Gaia Sergio Rubin Abstract: The main tenet of Gaia theory states that Life is a planetary phenomenon. While Gaia has been approached in terms of homeostasis, thermodynamics optimization, self-organization and co-evolution, here we develop a biological approach in terms of (M,R)-systems and Autopoiesis equivalence. By applying a minimum set of key categories to ongoing fluxes and cycles of the Earth system that are metabolized from internal and external resources by a planetary microbial network, we obtain a congruent mapping between Gaia and a single (M,R)-Autopoietic unity. Our results suggest that biological activity not only fabricates, produce and constitute (become itself) more than co-evolve (soft hypothesis), regulate, optimize or self-organize (strong hypothesis) the Earth system, but that Gaia as any other biological unity is a cognitive system non-simulable by Turing machine. Strong implications on environmental theory and Earth's climate prediction are of interest. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 4th* TBA TBA *May 11th* TBA TBA *May 18th* TBA TBA -- Cadell ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: https://cadelllast.com
