Re: Gaia's place in Evolutionary Biology


"Peter F" <fell_spamtrap_in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You seem to have acquired (or revisited) a religious mindset,
> and I doubt there is anything I can do about it.
>
> [My mindset allows me to make MAD-recapping attempts to with a touch of
> septic humor mix science-aligned reductionism and holism in order to
> expose (and better understand) *amongst else* the both innate and
> conditioned *religion motivating* blind spot of scientists,
> philosophizers, psychologists, and other sorts of homo sapiens type
> sports.]
>
> P
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Maybe I should be concerned that I've, it seems, out petered Peter. Yes,
I'm aware that what I'm stating here does not resemble the kind of concise
verbiage that we usually associated with science. But I'm saying that this
understanding serves to unify a number of disciplines that might have, at
first, seemed only peripherally related to evolutionary theory: Complexity
theory (including chaos theory and theory of computation), the Gaia
hypothesis, paleontology (most notably the observations regarding punctuated
equillibrium) and, of course Evolutionary Theory. I'm saying that my
description of the biota as an entity that calculates eternity serves as a
unifying principle such that the following are complimentary regardless of
the order of their placement: Gaia confirms and is confirmed by Punctuated
Equillibrium which confirms and is confirmed by Darwinism (not neoDarwinism)
which confirms and is confirmed by Complexity theory all of which is
confirmed and confirmed by the supposition that life/Gaia is an eternity
machine. I'ts a computational entity that continually calculates the design
(morphology) and distribution (location) of it's constituent parts
(lifeforms) that will maximize the probability that it life will survive
into eternity. And this also involves making changes to the atmosphere
which effects shifts in climate toward the same end. Catastrophic events
are the computational input to this calculatory entity in that they cause
the death/extinction of many parts of Gaia. This serves as the information
that Gaia employs to achieve a new design and distribution of it's
constituent parts (and the atmosphere) that Gaia calculates/predicts will
better prepare it for surviving into eternity. Whew!

Jim


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