Intelligence as a Planetary-Scale Process

* Article: Intelligence as a Planetary-Scale Process. By David Grinspoon, Adam Frank et al. 

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By Rimma Boshernitsan:

"In their paper, “Intelligence as a Planetary-Scale Process,” the co-authors, planetary scientists David Grinspoon and Adam Frank, and astrobiologist Sara Walker, describe a “mature technosphere,” as one in which our technical systems integrate so coherently with the biosphere that the whole can self-regulate rather than just react.

We’ve been separating signal from judgment, letting speed outrun significance, and ignoring our bodies until alarms blare. We, as a species, are grimly out of tune. Reimagining civilization’s cognition is no longer optional — it is the design imperative for a world that must learn to steer, not spin.

More computation alone will not solve this. Aligning computation with human and planetary intelligence will allow for a new kind of wisdom to emerge — a triad of intelligences forming a planetary nervous system."