{"id":179165,"date":"2023-12-26T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/earth-itself-may-be-an-intelligent-being-suggests-new-theory"},"modified":"2023-12-26T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T13:22:22","slug":"earth-itself-may-be-an-intelligent-being-suggests-new-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/earth-itself-may-be-an-intelligent-being-suggests-new-theory","title":{"rendered":"Earth Itself May Be an Intelligent Being, Suggests New Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-itself-may-be-an-intelligent-being-suggests-new-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was suggested by Gustave Fechner and other philosophers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How about planets? Can they have minds? This idea, that planets are also conscious beings, seems to be at the heart of a new theory put forth by astrobiologists. The premise of this thought experiment is that bacteria and plants working together have altered planets like Earth, giving them a new lease on life.<\/p>\n<p>This research, published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, provides a scale by which planets\u2019 intelligence can be evaluated. It\u2019s shocking to consider an extraterrestrial organism intelligent rather than a sentient animal like a human. But in a way, a planet can have a \u201cgreen mind\u201d; this paradigm suggests novel approaches to coping with climate change, technological upheaval, and other emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary intelligence was characterised by the researchers as \u201ccognitive activity\u201d and knowledge functioning on a global scale. We understand that the concept of intelligence may be applied to everything from an individual to a community or even the peculiar actions of a virus or mould. For example, fungi\u2019s webs of mycelium beneath the forest floor are its own breath; together, they make up a living system that can detect and adapt to shifting climates. All of Earth\u2019s conditions will be drastically altered by these factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was suggested by Gustave Fechner and other philosophers. How about planets? Can they have minds? This idea, that planets are also conscious beings, seems to be at the heart of a new theory put forth by astrobiologists. The premise of this thought experiment is that bacteria and plants working together have altered planets like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179165","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}