12.18.09
The eonic effect, Gaia, and ‘life, consciousness’
Debates over consciousness, matter, and the universe tend to be abstractions.
Look at the eonic effect: is this proof that the Gaian sphere is conscious, alive?
Note that when you get specific the answers stop being easy, and you must proceed with caution, as with the eonic model.
But note nonetheless that the pattern of the eonic effect is evidence of an extraordinary action behind the process of evolution.
It must be understood on its own terms.
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