[FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

[David Eric Smith]

Thanks for this, Steve,

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.

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. 

Best,

Eric


> On Feb 12, 2020, at 2:34 AM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> Eric -
> 
> 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.
> 
> The quote sounds like David Greenspoon in "Lonely Planets" ?   
> 
> I think the point you make here is highly relevant to the question of collective intelligence...  not something contained within individuals but the transition of systems.
> 
> - Steve
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