{"id":135832,"date":"2022-02-19T12:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/can-a-planet-think-the-bold-idea-gets-new-backing"},"modified":"2022-02-19T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:23:33","slug":"can-a-planet-think-the-bold-idea-gets-new-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/can-a-planet-think-the-bold-idea-gets-new-backing","title":{"rendered":"Can a planet \u201cthink\u201d? The bold idea gets new backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlMFsbkPEP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a way, it could mean climate change is linked to an \u201cimmature technosphere\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called an epiphenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that the ordinary function of one thing can generate a secondary effect that seems unrelated and beyond its scope of influence. And when it comes to the interconnected systems of the Earth, we see it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Plants, for example, found their way via evolution to photosynthesis, which greatly improved their survival. But it also led to them releasing oxygen into the atmosphere, and that changed everything: One form of life seeded a planet-wide transformation, just by pursuing its own nature.<\/p>\n<p>But, if the totality of life (called a biosphere) can radically reshape the Earth, some scientists speculate that cognition \u2014 and cognition-related actions \u2014 might exhibit the same effect.<\/p>\n<p>This is the \u201cthought experiment\u201d of a group of scientists who blended empirical knowledge of the Earth with more generic ideas about how life changes worlds. And, in the * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/international-journal-of-astrobiology\/article\/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process\/5077C784D7FAC55F96072F7A7772C5E5\">International Journal of Astrobiology<\/a>*, they explored the possibility of a \u201cplanetary intelligence\\.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/can-a-planet-think-the-bold-idea-gets-new-backing\">Continue reading \u201cCan a planet \u201cthink\u201d? The bold idea gets new backing\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a way, it could mean climate change is linked to an \u201cimmature technosphere\u201d. It\u2019s called an epiphenomenon. The idea is that the ordinary function of one thing can generate a secondary effect that seems unrelated and beyond its scope of influence. And when it comes to the interconnected systems of the Earth, we see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,493,385,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-climatology","category-evolution","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}