Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a ...

COSMIC ANCESTRY | Quick Guide | Next | by Brig Klyce | All Rights Reserved GAIA What'sNEW Is it too much to suggest that we may recognize... the beauty and fittingness of an environment created by an assembly of creatures James Lovelock (1) Regardless of the paradigm we use to explain it, life on Earth has evolved from bacteria, to single-celled eukaryotic creatures, to multicelled animals ...

Chapter 8 of Peter Russell's book The Global Brain Awakens ...

Next: Phase-Transition in the Up: Messy Futures and Global Previous: Global Information and The Global Brain Concept The parallels between biological brains and the global Internet has been discussed in some details in . In this section we want to summarize some elements and provide some recent examples and applications. In 1983 Russell proposed a Global Brain that might emerge from a worldwide ...

The Meaning Of Gaia Is Gaia a goddess, or just a good idea by David Spangler One of the articles in Earth & Spirit (IC#24) Late Winter 1990, Page 44 Copyright (c)1990, 1997 by Context Institute | To order this issue ... For many, a spirituality of the Earth has quickly become equated with Gaia worship - but this, suggests well-known writer and holistic thinker David Spangler, may be a serious ...

From or About GAIA-L Discussion List (to participate in the GAIA-L discussion, send sub gaia-l Your Name to listserv@listserv.aol.com GAIA Discussion List FAQ Plans for a Life Raft Does Gaia need Human defense Gaia Description and Hacker Bacteria The Water Battery Gaia 2000: A Proposal In Defense of Diversity The Purpose of Humanity Will Humans and Computers Merge How Grazing Contributes to ...

A short but compelling argument for an ecologically sound world view that counters the teleological Western paradigm. ...

Geophysiology: the science of Gaia Geophysiology is still a young science. Our contribution to the NWO Program on Perturbation of Earth Systems may be regarded as an attempt to contribute to the theoretical foundations of geophysiology. Although the idea of Gaia as a benign, organism-like entity (or deity), seems hopelessly romantic, geophysiology is in itself a legitimate field of study, ...

UN UNIVERSITY LECTURES: 1 The Evolving Gaia Theory James Lovelock Paper presented at the United Nations University on 25 September 1992 Tokyo, Japan Dr. James Lovelock is not part of a university, research institute, or business firm. He is not a wealthy man. But, as James Broughton said, the only limits are, as always, those of vision. James Lovelock has plenty of vision. It was his foresight ...