Gaia Theory

PLAYING WITH THE IDEA OF GAIA

Gaia, the Mother Earth, a global “symbiosis”, is the most beautiful possible world, a paradise upon Earth. How to reach it in practise? The task of thinking is to affect as much toward good as possible in an as important question as possible. So what would be a better subject for an intellectual hobby than making the Gaia idea more realistical and finding roads, which lead toward it in practise?

The birth of Gaia. During the evolution the safest choices survived, regardless of whether they were safe because of strength, allegiances or a lack of enemies. So those who allied survived better than those who didn’t. This lead to an evolution toward complex interconnected wholes: individuals consisting of many cells, packs ecosystems, maybe even larger wholes, Gaia, the whole biosphere as one complex interconnected cooperating whole, being the largest of them. Gaia is a debated thought. It is true that allegiances are useful, but does it happen in practise in a this big scale? And how to explain the existence of predators, doesn’t it prove against allegiances? I myself come to think of at least three ways in which living beings can ally despite the existence of predators: understanding, the sense of health and predators removing breaks in the harmony. So predators would be only one side of the reality and not the whole truth about the impossibility or possibility of allegiances.
1) Predators. The role of predators would be to eat away the ill ones who break against the harmony and they would so repair the whole system toward balance and keep so the prey populations healthier and the world more paradise like for the living. This role of predators would be partly automatic, a consequence of it being easier to catch ill prey, and partly a consequence of intentional striving for, because – cynically thought – a healthy prey population offers a sure source of food for the predators. A Gaia like hypothesis: Thus it might happen that the predators would be likely to eat away just the evil ones because their sense of health is lower than that of others, which could be reflected also in their ability to move and hide, if the functioning of an individual and of the oak form one intertwined whole, like is probable. 2) Understanding. My own experience about objective thinking tells that the human thinking ability is based to a very large extend to analogies to and from the sense of sight. So most animals have the basic building blocks of thinking ability. In addition they can discern between a healthy and a broken via their sense of empathy and via atmospheres. So one would imagine them being capable of understanding also large scale dangers with the help of analogies, by comparing to their own lives. This way the living beings could form Gaia, the global “symbiosis” also via their own understanding. So at least of there were no artificialities and no need to handle the artificialities by the help of trained thinking ( which too is easy to build upon analogies to nature landscapes) in addition to the instinctual understanding.
3) The sense of health. A way in which we at least form Gaia, the global “symbiosis”, is the following: humans and animals share a common gesture language, which makes it possible to communicate between species. Likewise the basic principles of functioning are the same for humans and animals. So even very different kinds of animals can serve as model of healthy kind of life to each other. This way our own health is intertwined with the health of our whole living environment.

A paradise in the beginning of time. There was a state of the world in the beginning, at the time before the artificialities bought by humans. Then the whole biosphere was in a state of complete naturality. But what was the state of naturality like? Was it a paradise and if it was, the why? How could one know? A paradise means happy life. It does not mean the absence of death. It might be that a paradise demands the existence of death: the non-paradise like individuals have to be removed, the lost ones dropped away by the force of illnesses and predators. Suffering is not a part of a paradise. Still, there is a need for forces wh9ich guide the lost ones back to the healthy paradise like ways of life. So feelings can be seen as forces, which guide toward a paradise. The best feelings: happiness and love, bind living beings to their correct places, to a paradise. In a state of complete naturality with healthy natural ways of living the world is filled with happiness and love.

So the Gaia paradise is the most victorious arrangement created by the evolution: there are all the living beings healthy and cooperating. Health gives best functioning and cooperation unifies all the forces to common use.
But is the Gaia paradise the most victorious arrangement even nowadays? What to do with the effects of all the artificialities?
The human functioning is still based on the ground created by the natural evolution: a healthy kind of life in the nature brings best functioning. This applies also to thinking ability. The changes in our living environment have been so quick and jump like that human haven’t had the time to adapt – and couldn’t have adapted, since the town environment doesn’t offer as much and same kinds of stimuli as the nature environment: count for example the number of technical kinds of details in a nature landscape and compare that to the same of a city landscape - how much better shape recognition ability and so a ground for the thinking ability the nature landscapes offer! Also the other functions of a human being long for the ground given by natural ways of living. For example the physical fitness is crucial to the well being of most. So the Gaia paradise is the best choice also for an academical worker when watched from the point of view of working ability.
What about feelings, do they still guide right? Feelings are always feelings about something: about things that are important to our functioning – for example feelings about the importance of feelings, in other words about the importance of to account factors which are important to our functioning. The social feelings and compassion help us to form allegiances, which is a beneficial strategy when watched from the point of view of the evolution, also in the modern times. A solution according to emotions is the most beneficial one and the Gaia paradise the most victorious arrangement even in the modern world. Maybe this piece of understanding helps us to reach better living conditions and to protect nature.

These thoughts are my own, my own experience supports them.



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