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Blog Post: Lynn Margulis RIP

Added by Michael Grove at 22:00 on March 11, 2014

Comment on: Video 'Nature of Love': twenty-first century." Lynn Margulis, originator of the GAIA Hypothesis, author of WHAT IS LIFE ? …; Added by Michael Grove at 9:10 on March 12, 2014

Blog Post: Dr. Lovelock’s breadth of knowledge extended ...

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Added by Michael Grove at 13:01 on July 28, 2022

Comment on: Video 'James Lovelock - A Final Warning: by Nature Video': as a self-regulating system…; Added by Michael Grove at 9:52 on December 14, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post '[TIME]LESS • [TIME] • in[TIME]...': ter following the Cuban missile crisis, whilst studying for our 'A' Level GCE examinations, we then both heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. As biologist Lynn Margulis points out, “life does not exist on Earth’s surface so much as it is Earth’s surface. . . . Earth is no more a planet-sized chunk of rock inhabited with life than your body is a skeleton infested with cells.”[5] Gaia’s radical challenge to traditional Darwinian biology is that life influences the environment. For Darwin, life was essentially passive, a process that was forced to adapt to a specific environment. Gaia theory shows that life and environment evolve as a single, coevolutionary process. On Earth, all life is an embodiment of the planetary environment, but the planetary environment is also product of life. Gaia theory and the new biology embodies the circular, metabolic logic of life. The universe brings forth life and mind—but life and mind work to shape the universe. Life and environment are folded back on themselves in a self-referential, evolutionary spiral. Gaia is not a single organism, but a superorganism. Like the single organisms of which it is comprised, it is self-regulating and autopoietic. Like my own body composed of many individual cells, Gaia has its own metabolism. As we breathe and exhale, we participate in the life-breath of the entire biosphere. Gaia theory is strongly supported by complexity science, which shows how complex systems with feedback loops spontaneously self-organize and develop metabolic patterns. From the Gaian perspective, our own lives are totally inseparable from the life of the larger planet. http://www.cosmopolisproject.org/gaia-theory-in-a-nutshell/ …; Added by Michael Grove at 15:19 on August 2, 2022

Comment on: Blog Post 'Playing to the BEAT of the DRUM ...': hanged. Not because it rusted. No, its meaning changed. The human environment around the screw changed. So the screw changed too. At first, the screw meant laughter, teasing, general irritation, neighbors coming together to see what’s going on. The screw became a violation of human duties. Then the screw changed into shrugging shoulders. And then the screw became peace. No one could walk past without a peek at the screw and feeling peace. Nature As Our AdvisorAnd I had these deep thoughts about potentiality as I understand easily from the BBC interview with Richard Feynman. He is a quantum physics scientist and if you ever want to understand nature and the way our reality is being created in space, please listen to his beautiful and fun explanations. I could never understand physics in school. But I can understand Richard. He tells me imaginatively about jiggling atoms. And why there’s heat and cold. And how symbiosis between objects is transferring heat and cold. Not making it more or less. Just transferring. And then I connected the dots with what Lynn Margulis taught me. About symbiosis in nature. Evolution. And how we always evolve. It just goes too slow for us to realize. That makes us depressed. At this moment, we just see many people and unfair humans systems being too deeply rooted in our human brains. We think we can’t do things differently. But we can! We are just toddlers on this Earth. The sun is just halfway through his lifespan. And we have 5 billion more years to figure it all out. …; Added by Michael Grove at 7:54 on October 23, 2021

Blog Post: EXPANDING WORLDS OF MARGULLIS & LOVELOCK

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Added by Michael Grove at 8:41 on February 16, 2019

Comment on: Blog Post 'ALL science and all scientists': f communication. Peter Russell’s notion of the Global Brain (1982) builds on the electronic communication and nervous system metaphor of the noosphere to establish the idea of the noosphere as a planetary global brain. Buckminster Fuller’s concepts for developing a whole system design perception of the Earth - Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) and Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969) - are also fundamental to a theory of the noosphere as intrinsic to a view of the planet as an evolving organism, an idea also articulated in James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis (1981). Sheldrake has proposed that memories are better understood in terms of morphic resonance, a process whereby patterns of activity in the past resonate with patterns in the present on the basis of similarity, with this resonance passing across or through space and time from the past to the present. He has discussed this hypothesis in detail in his book The Presence of the Past and it is summarised in his book Science Set Free/The Science Delusion in Chapter 7. …; Added by Michael Grove at 12:48 on November 7, 2014

Comment on: Blog Post 'GET THEE BEHIND [ME] SATAN ...': inely holistic thinking and actions possible !!!???JUST TRY DISCONNECTING THE MECHANISM OF INTERPRETATION In the context of all the great minds that have influenced contemporary thought, Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, and Jesus have had the most profound and lasting impact, but as Rachel Carson, Lynn Margulis and Polly Higgins have more recently pronounced, let's try to look at the natural world that we inhabit, as if we were actually a part of [IT], because that [IS] indefatigably and indisputably a different way to understand things than anyone had proposed before. HERE ARE JUST a FEW of my last decade memories. …; Added by Michael Grove at 15:12 on April 20, 2022

Comment on: Blog Post 'THE GREEN•SPOT RESONANCE OF LIFE': place where something is missing in a PIECE of WRITING or in an IDEA, a THEORY, etcetera ... and even the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's synonym and definition in the USA are the very same. …; Added by Michael Grove at 9:15 on May 19, 2020

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