Re:Taking the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
by dmytrish on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:53AM
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Exactly, the idea of mystical living Gaia does not have any scientific value.
The biosphere of Earth is indeed a huge and very complex system, but it's pointless to "animate" it, it lives according to its own laws that should be studied objectively, not according to some fuzzy analogies rooted in our bias and perceptions (an example of a similar bias: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Anthropomorphism).
The biosphere of Earth is indeed a huge and very complex system, but it's pointless to "animate" it, it lives according to its own laws that should be studied objectively, not according to some fuzzy analogies rooted in our bias and perceptions (an example of a similar bias: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Anthropomorphism).