>Susan Brassfield wrote:
>
>>The Gaia Hypothesis is that the earth and everything on it as a whole is an
>>interconnected system and that it is literally alive and sentient. If you
>>here of a lab procedure that detects sentience, do let me know.
Cliff Lundberg:
>The point is that if 'sentience' is not a scientific term, how can you,
>on scientific grounds, complain about its misapplication? If it's a
>vague, poetic notion, why not let people have their fun with it?
Oh, as a religious idea, I think it's lovely.
Susan
----------
For if there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
--Albert Camus
http://www.telepath.com/susanb/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon May 08 2000 - 17:09:21 EDT