Eric -
/There’s a quote and I can’t remember the source, I should, he’s a
member of the astrobiology community, but it’s pithy and elegant.
The quote was that the origin of life is not something that happens
on a planet, it’s something that happens to a planet. That was
really Harold’s insight that the origin of life should be understood
through the emergence of a biosphere. It’s not something that’s
contained within individuals. It’s rather a transition of systems,
which means that it’s multi-component, it’s robust and it changes
the dynamics of everything around it./
The quote sounds like David Greenspoon in "Lonely Planets" ?
I think the point you make here is highly relevant to the question of
collective intelligence... /not something contained within individuals
but the transition of systems/.
- Steve
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