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["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Ah Dieter, In 1900 science could have taken it alright. And real science 
still can. Science is about curiosity and wanting to find out more than in 
bamboozling consumers to buy certain products.
In fact I think it is religion that is the problem for it was there that 
dogmas were launched concerning how special mankind was. It is clear that 
there are quite a few animals that are quite as intelligent as the average 
person and that plants have feelings and a sort of nerve system and that 
micro organisms exchange bits of information amongst themselves and with 
plants and the inorganic realm and it were scientists wondering who found 
this out.
john

> Well, there has to be an interface between the organic and the inorganic. 
> And it stands to reason that the line dividing the two is more or less 
> arbitrarily drawn by the human mind.  In fact, there is no reason to 
> assume that Nature sees itself in the same dualistic terms as humans view 
> Nature.  Nature does not see itself at all, it is.  So are we. That is the 
> basic step science cannot take.
>
> --- On Sat, 1/14/12, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:
>
> > From: John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>
> > Subject: Re: [permaculture] Question for Toby and anyone else interested.
> > To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Date: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 11:00 PM
> >
> >  But in my non-scientific moments I consider the Earth to
> > be alive, too. At
> > least we should be treating it that way.
> >
> > Toby
> > http://patternliteracy.com
> >
> >
> > I think that the idea that the planet is alive is even
> > tenable
> > scientifically since many of the components of the planet
> > were formed and
> > are maintained by life forces. Also because the inter-
> > relations with feed
> > back loops of millions of different species of organism are
> > so complex that
> > it is simplistic to state the whole is not alive when we
> > are not always even
> > sure how to define "life" in the first place. (for instance
> > is a virus
> > alive?)
> > What makes it difficult for us is the difference in process
> > speed of a human
> > life and of the planet as a whole. Compared to the life
> > span of the planet
> > us humans are completely insignificant even with all the
> > damage we have done
> > in such a very short time. "Proof" of Gaia being alive
> > would be if the
> > planet spits humans out and goes on without us sometime in
> > the future.
> > john
> >
> >
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