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I am beginning to suspect that a patch of soil thinks and behaves like a kind of organism, literally.
by carapace 6y ago
I am beginning to suspect that a patch of soil thinks and behaves like a kind of organism, literally.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6y agoThis is the "Gaia hypothesis" on a smaller scale.
- carapace 6y agoYes, if you like. Consider the stromatolite, or trichoplax. It seems to me that the boundary, if any, between "ecosystem" and "organism" is conceptual rather than physical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax