[vvarren]

But how do you know for sure that the Earth isn’t just a floating brain? Mycology suggests that there are neural networks within forests, and the vast variety of species act in a sort of symbiotic equilibrium. Perhaps human consciousness and the creation of the internet was the final step in connecting the circuit.

I would say that planet earth resembles a living brain far more than it resembles a stagnant rock.

[VonGuard]

Definitely agree. Humanity becoming an ingrained part of that living brain would exemplify a giant step forward in evolution for us, and growth for the brain. A maturation.

[monkeynotes]

But what is the output of this earth brain? Outwardly it appears, to us at least, that there is zero affect to observe and so we'd have to assume this brain is locked in or at least completely indecipherable to us.

[52-6F-62]

A human brain doesn't just stop operation if it lacks the physical appendages to interact with an exterior environment.

I can only imagine, if such a posited earth-brain exists, that its entire functioning would be to continue functioning while it reflects upon its own existence and trying to understand its environment with what information it gathers.

And if we're a part of that earth-brain then our effects are its effects.

I wonder how a psychologist might diagnose such an earth-brain in its present condition... anxious, self-destructive, but not without redeeming qualities, and trying to reach out for connection just the same...

[monkeynotes]

By your reasoning we could describe the entirety of everything as a brain. It's just brains all the way. Can any meaning be extracted from that, at all? Seems to me semantics and language are really just illusions of meaning.

[52-6F-62]

Isn't that kind of what's described in physics? It's forces interacting all the way down.

[ssully]

I mean the obvious answer is the radio waves that leave our planet are an observable affect.

[monkeynotes]

Radio waves are simply electromagnetic radiation, this is ubiquitous throughout the universe. Nothing special about the earth being formed in a particular brain-like way and the radio radiation emanating from earth itself is as random as the radiation emanating from the sun.