Who Is the Earth?

by Neil Dale

Overview

Earth is a living being. Follow Life as an entity from the self-organizing of the Solar System, through the first molecular systems and the succession of hosts to the present. The lens of cooperation reveals an entity - call Her Nature, if you like - that has been developing both in cooperative complexity and intelligence through the ages of geologic time. The Gaia Hypothesis is only the beginning. Avoiding long Latin words, while using more than a hundred and fifty illustrations, this is a journey intended for the curious. As we approach our own time the interwoven complexity becomes too broad to grasp with the rational mind. The focus of the book then shifts to the sustainable cultures that are still alive, and to their view of this being, and the importance of growing this awareness in our civilization now.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164747411
Publisher:	Neil Dale
Publication date:	02/22/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

I come from several generations of New England geologists. From age six I intended to be one myself, and that guided me through school until, as an underclassman at Harvard, I began to question the scientific approach. I found something indefinably chilling in the purely intellectual approach. Evolutionary theory, on the other hand, seemed to be intellectually over-simplified and dogmatic. After college I became an artist, and carved gems for about 10 years, until turning to antique restoration for steadier income.
Reading James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and the work of Lynn Margulis on symbiotic evolution has led me in the last 20 years through an odyssey of scattered scientific studies, searching for glimpses of the greater systems that we inhabit. Turning this into a narrative, along with over a hundred illustrations, many of which come from my artistic craft, has resulted in the book: "Who Is the Earth?"

I come from several generations of New England geologists. From age six I intended to be one myself, and that guided me through school until, as an underclassman at Harvard, I began to question the scientific approach. I found something indefinably chilling in the purely intellectual approach. Evolutionary theory, on the other hand, seemed to be intellectually over-simplified and dogmatic. After college I became an artist, and carved gems for about 10 years, until turning to antique restoration for steadier income.
I have come to a new proposition that Earth has identity and makes decisions. Reading James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and the work of Lynn Margulis on symbiotic evolution has led me, in the last 20 years, through an odyssey of widely separated scientific specialties, searching for glimpses of the greater systems that we inhabit. Eventually the pieces knit together to reveal a living being. Turning this into a narrative, along with over a hundred illustrations, many of which come from my artistic craft, has resulted in the book: "Who Is the Earth?"