Re: Catchup voting results

Glen in reply to my point

> >I would adopt the view with Peter Russel that rather than humanity
> >becoming a sentient being (an anthropocentric viewpoint), what we are
> >really seeing is "the awakening Earth" and Gaia (the living Earth
> >itself) becoming a sentient being.
>
> Well, not exactly because humanity, as a sentient being, lives on a

ball

> called Earth but is not bound by it.

I would argue that at the moment we are bound to it. Try existing
without taking another lung full of air? It was produced for you by
photosynthesising trees. We are a part of a biosphere and we cannot
exist independently of it.

> Eventually, humanity must spread out
> into space in order to continue to survive (otherwise our sun will

hit

> supernova and we'll all be fried). Thus Earth being seeded with life

and

> being home to a movable humanity, isn't a sentient being but an "egg"

or

> nursery to humanity until it eventually leaves to seed again.

This won't happen for another 5 billion years. Since the average
mammal species only survives about 2 million years, any species which
leaves Earth (carrying the biosphere with it) will have long since
ceased to be human. Language as we understand it will seem as
primitive as single cell chemical communication systems are to us.

John