<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for this, Steve,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, it was Grinspoon. Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had forgotten it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan. Given what happens to European Jewish names at Ellis Island (or its modern equivalent), those could well have been the same name originally. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 12, 2020, at 2:34 AM, Steven A Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" class="">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Eric -</p>
<blockquote class=""><p class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">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>
</blockquote><p class=""><span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">The quote
sounds like David Greenspoon in "Lonely Planets" ? <br class="">
</span></p><p class="">I think the point you make here is highly relevant to the
question of collective intelligence... <i class="">not something
contained within individuals but the transition of systems</i>.</p><p class="">- Steve<br class="">
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