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<p>Eric -</p>
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!important; float: none;">There’s a quote and I can’t
remember the source, I should, he’s a member of the
astrobiology community, but it’s pithy and elegant. The
quote was that the origin of life is not something that
happens on a planet, it’s something that happens to a
planet. That was really Harold’s insight that the origin of
life should be understood through the emergence of a
biosphere. It’s not something that’s contained within
individuals. It’s rather a transition of systems, which
means that it’s multi-component, it’s robust and it changes
the dynamics of everything around it.</span></i></p>
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sounds like David Greenspoon in "Lonely Planets" ? <br>
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<p>I think the point you make here is highly relevant to the
question of collective intelligence... <i>not something
contained within individuals but the transition of systems</i>.</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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