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Resurrecting Gaia: harnessing the Free Energy Principle to preserve life as we know it

This paper applies the Free Energy Principle (FEP) to propose that the lack of action in response to the global ecological crisis should be considered a maladaptive symptom of human activity that we refer to as biophilia deficiency syndrome. The paper is organised into four parts: the characterisation of the natural world under the Gaia Hypothesis, the employment of the FEP as a description of the behavior of self-organising systems, the application of the FEP to Gaia to understand coupling dynamics between living systems and purportedly non-living planetary processes, and the offering of positive interventions for addressing the current state of ecological crisis under this framework. For the latter, we emphasize the importance of perturbing stuck states for healthy development, and the necessary appreciation of life existing as nested systems at multiple levels in a hierarchy. We propose the development of human biophilia virtue in accordance with the FEP as a practical intervention for treating biophilia deficiency syndrome and helping to safeguard the balance of planetary processes and the integrity of living systems that depend on them, offering some examples of what this might look like in practice. Overall, this paper provides novel insights into how to catalyse meaningful ecological change, proposing a deliberate and disruptive approach to addressing the dysfunctional relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world.

Frontiers | Resurrecting Gaia: harnessing the Free Energy Principle to preserve life as we know it
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1206963/full?

The Indian Ocean Has the World's Largest Gravity 'Black Hole' and It's Finally Explained
https://earthlymission.com/indian-ocean-geoid-low-iogl-largest-gravity-hole-anomaly-solved/

The "Potsdam Gravity Potato" shows the differences in gravity on Earth's surface. It has a potato-like shape due to variations in Earth's mass distribution, causing local gravitational anomalies that appear as an irregular shape when mapped.

The Indian Ocean has the world's largest gravity 'black hole,' which is the most recessed part of the potato (marked with blue). This spot is called the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), and it is the largest gravity anomaly on our planet, covering an area of about 3 million square kilometers, almost the size of India itself. Due to the low gravity there, the sea level over the IOGL is up to 106 m (348 ft) lower than the global average. That means if you were to sail across the anomaly, you would be closer to Earth's center than anywhere else on the ocean

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct.

Prototaxites, which lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago, was the first giant terrestrial life form to inhabit Earth. It grew trunk-like structures up to 8 metres tall and 1 metre wide.

Its fossils were first discovered in 1843 and were initially thought to be the trunks of rotten conifers. Their classification has been a matter of intense debate, but in 2007, Kevin Boyce at Stanford University, California, and his colleagues concluded from the carbon isotopes in the fossils that they were a kind of fungus.

Prototaxites: Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473272-bizarre-fossil-may-have-been-an-entirely-new-type-of-life/

Krok co může vést k víc evidence-based řízení. Jensen Huang předpokládá, že teď se začnou činnosti monitorovat a předkládat AI k tokenizaci, aby se modely učily z reality jak svět funguje (versus z knih). Bylo by hezké, kdyby byla poptávka obecně pochopit děje (lidi, skupiny, biomy, ..), sbíralo a modelovalo všechno možné, .. možnost pak těch Dashboardu "co se teď děje"

https://x.com/i/grok/share/1Ug5tJQBW4hqbeGWK1c5m9tmC

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2025 Beyond the closed-forest paradigm: Cross-scale vegetation structure in temperate Europe before the late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061


Beyond the Closed-Forest Paradigm: Rethinking Temperate Europe’s Natural Landscapes

Our new study, co-authored with an international team, challenges the long-standing assumption that Europe’s temperate landscapes were uniformly covered by closed forest before human impact. Here, using state-of-the-art pollen analyses we reconstruct vegetation patterns from the Last Interglacial (~129,000–116,000 years ago) - prior to the human-driven megafauna extinction - and uncover a highly heterogeneous landscape—not the dense, continuous forests often assumed.

Key Findings:

✅ Mosaic Landscapes: At a local scale (~9 km²), vegetation was a dynamic mix: 17% open areas, 21% closed forests, and 63% light woodlands (composed of disturbance-adapted plants) —far from a uniform dense forest.

✅ Weak Climate Correlations: Surprisingly, climate alone did not strongly predict vegetation openness, suggesting that local-scale factors and disturbances played a key role.

✅ Scale Matters: Local and regional vegetation patterns were only weakly correlated, highlighting the importance of fine-scale heterogeneity in understanding past ecosystems.

✅ The Role of Megafauna: Large herbivores likely played a key role in shaping this landscape, maintaining openness and biodiversity through grazing and browsing—a perspective with key implications for conservation, restoration, reforestation, and rewilding.

🌍 These findings challenge the classic closed-forest paradigm and provide crucial insights for biodiversity conservation and restoration strategies today.

‘Godfather of AI’ predicts it will take over the world | LBC
https://youtu.be/vxkBE23zDmQ?si=kTx8QE7ywOyV8tMe


You say they try to get more control as if they are already thinking devices, as if they think in a way analogous to the way we think. Is that really what you believe?

"Yes, the best model we have of how we think is these things. There was an old model for a long time in AI where the idea was that thought was applying rules to symbolic expressions in your head and most people in AI thought it has to be like that, that's the only way it could work. There were a few crazy people who said no no it's a big neural network and it works by all these neurons interacting. It turns out that's been much better at doing reasoning than anything the symbolic AI people could produce and now it's doing reasoning using neural networks."

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We would like them to be just tools that do what we want even when they're cleverer than us but the first thing to ask is how many examples do you know of more intelligent things being controlled by much less intelligent things? There are examples of course in human societies of stupid people controlling intelligent people but that's just a small difference in intelligence. With big differences in intelligence there aren't any examples. The only one I can think of is a mother and baby and evolution put a lot of work into allowing the baby to control the mother."

Křemíkoví Sověti - Sen o nesmrtelnosti
https://politiq.cz/2025/02/01/kremikovi-soveti/

Zdá se, že zde existuje paradoxní paralela mezi futuristickým myšlením mladého Sovětského svazu a diskurzem Silicon Valley. A čím blíže se na ni díváte, tím je jasnější. Dalo by se dokonce říci, že ducha kalifornského technologického kapitalismu lze plně pochopit pouze tehdy, čtete-li ho na pozadí jeho komunistického protějšku.