Thanks for this, Steve, Yes, it was Grinspoon. Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had forgotten it.
Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan. Given what happens to European Jewish names at Ellis Island (or its modern equivalent), those could well have been the same name originally. Best, Eric > On Feb 12, 2020, at 2:34 AM, Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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