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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