Can Gaia learn?, Can Gaia think?
The French astronomer Antoine Labeyrie (in a personal communiqué) hypothesized that ecosystems, by virtue of ubiquitous signaling and communication between their constituent biota, are endowed with properties typical of neuronal networks.
In other words: ecosystems may be capable of (slow) thinking and learning.
By implication, I hypothesize that these properties may also be attributed to the largest ecosystem of all, i.e., the entire Gaia system. There is little evidence to support this view, and one may wonder how one should measure Gaia's intelligence. On the other han ...
