Gaea Hypothesis

Extinction of a high intelligent species

In our drive to compete God humanity has made great progress what I may call our state of Technocracy as a concept of our Democracy. Politicians who do not understand have their choices been determined upon scientists and economists, whose purposes are to prove how things work and how it could be even better – competing God. This in not only related to matter and mechanisation, it extends to life, as if the magic of life and its divine spark can be replaced by, yes what ? Gaea is known as the mythical goddess of the earth and nowadays it is a kind of religion that considers “Earth” and its habitants as 1 organ within an organic system as our cosmos represents itself within the whole.

The Gaea hypothesis, theory or principle of James Lovelock proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on earth to form a self-regulating complex system, contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. Topics of interests include how the biosphere and the evolution of life forms affect the stability of global conditional circumstances such as the climate and other environmental variables that effect the habitability on earth. When I consider this Gaea history, then we see some important aspects, first the term “Holocene epoch”. The Holocene epoch means that a great number of species were extinct by nature with more or less cosmic influences. Holocene is to be specified as we think about what human is doing now; more technocratizing the world at the cost of flora and fauna. Within some years even lots of human species and perhaps all. That’s the stage we’re in now. 

As you may know science is based upon “to ensure the unsureness or increase the grade of sureness by diminishing the unsureness.” So it’s about the process, the “how”-question.  Science is about Technocracy, where “technè” is Greek for the combination of meaning beyond “art, skills, product & competence” – a kind of syneaeresis or an intuitive simultaneously perceptively understanding of these 4 terms. Once Albert Einstein remarked : “God isn’t throwing dice”. Meaning that the cosmos as a high ordered structure could not be emerged out of chance or coincidence. The information beyond this cosmic con-structure wears its purpose – future – in it. Gaea – “Earth” – is part of this ever changing structure into new ones. Bruno Latour is 1 of the sociologist-philosophers, who elaborated this whole concept about Gaea :

“By 2016, the world’s geologists will officially decide whether or not Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropogenic. From Latour’s non-modern perspective, neither “nature” nor “society” can enter this new epoch unscathed. “The theater of Modern history has been destroyed and must be re-constructed from scratch”. Gone is the passive stage, “nature,” upon which the actors, “rational animals,” have for so long waged their wars and signed their peace treaties. The Anthropos is no longer in nature, nor outside of nature. Latour heralds the coming of an entirely new kind of political animal, a novel form of political body. They are a people to come, the people of Gaea, agents of an impatient planet.”  (summary by Matthew Segall)

How is it that so many different people feel what life, earth and a living planet mean and so few people don’t really care ? Is it possible that we step over to another planet when this one is washed, polluted and exhausted ? If Planet Earth has a purpose within the Universe, then is it possible that human is allowed to destroy this one ? Is that part of this purpose or is that too simple to admit and so drop our responsibility ? The highest law of the Universe is that is recovers itself. It will re-evoke its power of self-regulation and self-morphogenesis, with or without the human race. So in a way we do have a choice, that’s our free will, simply because we are spiritual beings.