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	Gaia theory
		Gaia theory is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere in which life as a whole fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by helping to create an environment on Earth suitable for its continuity.
		During the Gaia conference, James Kirchner, a physicist and philosopher took the opportunity of the meeting to explain that there are not one Gaia hypothesis, but several ones ranging from "weak Gaia" to "strong Gaia".
		After initial criticism, Gaia hypothesis is now considered an essential part of ecological science, essentially proposing the planet to be the encompassing object of ecological study.
	www.ibpassociation.org /encyclopedia/Biology/Gaia_theory.php (2814 words)

	Gaia theory (science) Summary
		Gaia, the Earth, was believed by the ancient Greeks to be a living, fertile ancestor of many of their important gods.
		The Gaia hypothesis forms part of what is scientifically referred to as earth system science, and is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere in which life as a whole fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by helping to create an environment on Earth suitable for its continuity.
		Ecologists generally consider the biosphere as an ecosystem and the Gaia hypothesis, though a simplification of that original proposed, to be consistent with a modern vision of global ecology, relaying the concepts of biosphere and biodiversity.
	www.bookrags.com /Gaia_theory_(science) (7917 words)

	The Perceptual Implications of Gaia
		The Gaia hypothesis, as formulated by geochemist James Lovelock, represents a unique moment in scientific thought: the first glimpse, from within the domain of pure and precise science, that this planet might best be described as a coherent, living entity.
		In direct contradiction to the earlier scientific assumption that life on Earth’s surface is surrounded by and adapts to an essentially random environment, Gaia indicates that the atmosphere in which we live and think is itself a dynamic extension of the planetary surface, a functioning organ of the Earth.
		I have suggested that the most radical element of the Gaia hypothesis, as presently formulated, may be the importance that it places on the air, the renewed awareness it brings us of the atmosphere itself as a thick and mysterious phenomenon no less influential for its invisibility.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /gaia/esp_gaia10.htm (5010 words)

	Gaia's Womb
		Gaia is the earth and the earth is nature, and we are children of the earth.
		Gaia is the elements; she is earth, air, fire and water, and each element is infused with her spirit.
		Her presence and her handiwork are evident, in each cycle of the moon and in each station of the wheel of the year, as its seasons have turned from the beginning of time.
	www.gaiaswomb.com /about.htm (763 words)

	Gaia Summary
		GAIA theory was first proposed by the English scientist James Lovelock in 1979 to explain how and why, as life appeared on the planet and grew abundant, its evolution and the earth's evolution merged into a single dynamic system he called Gaia.
		Gaia is thus not only an attempt to specify a unifying framework for the operation of the entire earth system, but also an explicit critique of the existing organization of knowledge inquiry.
		Gaia has had little effect on research agendas, however, and the number of working scientists willing to be associated with the hypothesis is small—perhaps less than a dozen.
	www.bookrags.com /Gaia (3042 words)

	Gaia Foundation
		The Gaia Foundation is part of an international network of individuals and Gaia groups, that share concerns with living more sustainably on the Earth.
		The structure of the Gaia Foundation avoids the central committee-passive periphery structure of conventional non-government organisations.
		Being a member of the Gaia Foundation is open to all who adhere to the objectives of the Gaia Foundation, regardless of race, class, gender, sexual preference, age, nationality, marital status, religious or political affiliation.
	www.gaia.iinet.net.au (935 words)

	Gaia Media Foundation — LSD Symposium
		Established in Basel in 1993, the Gaia Media Foundation is a non-profit organization, which conveys a holistic and up to date understanding of the potential of the human consciousness.
		It advocates the firm belief that the ability and desire to achieve transcendence is inherent in man, and that expanded states of consciousness shed light upon the knowledge of the laws of life, of nature, of the universe, and of Gaia.
		Our foundation is named Gaia Media because we intend to promote, spread and network the knowledge about Gaia, especially the knowledge about our consciousness, its altered states, and its development in the context of our evolution on a non-profit level and by means of a variety of media.
	www.lsd.info /symposium/impressum-en/gaiamedia (1047 words)

	Fundamentals of Being>GaianXaos
		Gaia, traditionally referred to as the Mother Earth, is actually a much broader concept that extends far beyond this planetary reality.
		From a mythological view, the chaotic ideal was represented in the form of serpents and sea monsters, which in turn represented the forms of early goddesses in Sumeria and Babylonia.
		In the physical sciences, mainstream theories have always held that all things in the universe could be explained if all the conditions and parameters were known.
	www.gaianxaos.com /fundamentals_of_being.htm (4218 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Foundation
		The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge.
		Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronogically the last in the series.
		Gaia; for encouraging Hari Seldon's study of psychohistory (A central point of the prequels to the series); and for manipulating Trevize into his decision at the end of Foundation's Edge.
	fusionanomaly.net /foundation.html (3027 words)

	Gaia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaia as myth, Greek goddess (her equivalent in Rome is Terra), in Sumerian mythology she is referred to as Ki;
		Gaia (Foundation universe), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and where all animals, plants, and even inanimate matter are telepathically connected, forming a single sentient planet-wide entity
		Gaia (World of Darkness) is the god that created the Garou (werewolves) to defend the planet against the human race
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia (640 words)

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		The Gaia hypothesis, as formulated by geochemnist James Lovelock, represents a unique moment in scientific thought: the first glimpse, from within the domain of pure and precise science, that this planet might best be described as a coherent, living entity.
		It is significant that the first envidence that the surface of this planet functions as a living entity should come from a study of the atmosphere, the very aspect of the Earth that we most commonly forget.
		Gaia is no mere formula--it is our own body, our flesh and our blood, the wind blowing past our ears and the hawks wheeling overhead.
	www.webcom.com /gaia/percept.html (4683 words)

	Epilogue from The Passion of the Western Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For when Copernicus recognized that the Earth was not the absolute fixed center of the universe, and, equally important, when he recognized that the movement of the heavens could be explained in terms of the movement of the observer, he brought forth what was perhaps the pivotal insight of the modern mind.
		In the same way, Descartes's schism between the personal and conscious human subject and the impersonal and unconscious material universe was systematically ratified and augmented by the long procession of subsequent scientific developments, from Newtonian physics all the way to contemporary big-bang cosmology, fl holes, quarks, W and Z particles, and grand unified superforce theories.
		Thus the ancient symbolically resonant geocentric universe of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Dante gradually loses its numinosity, becomes seen as a problem full of contradictions, and with Copernicus and Kepler that numinosity is fully transferred to the heliocentric cosmos.
	www.gaiamind.org /Tarnas.html (8366 words)

	Amazon.ca: Foundation's Edge: the Foundation Novels: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge.
		Things are going well for the Foundation and its ever-expanding sphere of influence - too well, as it turns out, prompting a quest to see if the secretive mentalists of the Second Foundation are still attempting to control history despite their presumed destruction at the end of the last book.
		Foundations Edge starts off, without revealing too much, introducing a young Foundationer who sets out to discover the location of the Second Foundation and along the way gets introduced to the concept of Earth where all of humanity is supposively originated from.
	www.amazon.ca /Foundations-Edge-Foundation-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293389 (2219 words)

	older astronomers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Aristotelian cosmology the Earth was imperfect and situated at the centre of the Universe.
		In his world system the Earth was immobile at the centre of the Universe, as the centre for the planetary motions.
		The planetary spheres were enclosed by the heaven of the fixed stars which rotated due to the impulse which it received from the primum mobile (the ninth heaven, which moved extremely quickly and was devoid of stars), with the aid of God.
	www.indiana.edu /~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_1/ptolemy.htm (352 words)

	Review of Foundation‘s Edge
		Asimov, however, made the decision that his two major universes should be one, and set out to begin the explanation in Foundation’s Edge of why we see no robots on Terminus.
		Gaia also represents the kind of world-organism Asimov had objected to in "Green Patches", here, however, made the ideal destiny of mankind.
		The Second Foundation is shown to be run by human beings, who can be just as petty and uninspiring as anybody else.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book262.html (625 words)

	Gaia - Taking The Galactic Census
		With the selection of the photometric filters for Gaia now entering the final design phase, all interested parties are invited to provide their comments to the document authors in the coming weeks, to assist convergence of this important activity.
		Gaia in 2003, a status report prepared by the Gaia Project Scientist, summarises the status of the Gaia project at the end of 2003, describes the progress achieved in 2003, and summarises the major ongoing and planned activities.
		ESA's Gaia (a global astrometry mission planned for launch in 2010) and NASA's SIM (a pointed astrometry mission scheduled to launch in 2009) are now the only space astrometry missions planned for the foreseeable future.
	www.rssd.esa.int /SA-general/Projects/GAIA/news_archive.html (4025 words)

	Amazon.com: Foundation and Earth: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I found Foundation's Edge slightly confusing in that there was something effecting the minds of both the Foundation confederation and the minds of the Second Foundation, and wasn't completely sure if it was a Third Foundation or what.
		Actually, even though there are these ambiguities on the universe here and there, Asimov does wrap up the Foundation series somewhat nicely (although you may not like it as it differs from the original Foundation series), as well as wrapping up his grouping of all of his series into one.
		gaia is the greek philosopher plato's spiritual vision of the universe.
	www.amazon.com /Foundation-Earth-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553587579 (2321 words)

	GaianXaos: X-Talks
		As told in Chaos, Gaia, Eros, the word "Chaos" or "XAOS" came into use only in ancient Greece (Hesiod), yet had a prehistory in the Goddess religions of the Old World.
		It is now also theoretically possible to consider the likelihood that these infinite levels of nested probabilistic systems are integral aspects of one infinite dimensional superspace system.
		This abstract system, which we have been conveniently referring to as Ωt, represents the universal superdynamic system, or omega field, which is responsible for the generation and evolution of all possible dynamic systems which occur in nature.
	www.gaianxaos.com /index.htm (1007 words)

	Gaia Foundation Web Page
		The Gaia Foundation of Tasmania is a part of an international network of individuals and Gaia groups, which share concerns with living more sustainable on the Earth.
		The Members of the Foundation fulfil these commitments through engaging in Gaia Projects, either by creating new initiatives, working together with other Gaia Members, or by working with other organisations.
		What is required is for those wishing to become members of the Foundation to communicate their intention to the Gaia Foundation Networking Project, which maintains a registry of members, the projects and the energy exchange records.
	gaia.iinet.net.au /Tasmania.html (499 words)

	Gaia (Foundation universe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daneel Olivaw, in an effort to resolve some of the problems that plagued him due to the Zeroth Law of Robotics.
		Hari Seldon's Psychohistory Project was a 'backup' initiated by Olivaw in the event that Gaia-Galaxia failed.
		This is because mentalic effects occur at the speed of light.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia_(Foundation_universe) (785 words)

	TimeLine for the Robots & Foundations Universe
		The Second Foundation Trilogy, written by Bear, Brin, and Benford is a very good read too since it explains a lot left to the imagination in the original Foundation books.
		The Gaia overmind offers Golan Trevize ("the man who is always right") a choice between an Empire built by physical force, one rules by Second Foundation mentalics, or a galaxy-sized version of Gaia..
		Foundation civilization approaches ultimate confrontation with both Gaia and Chaos.
	www.sikander.org /foundation.php (1601 words)

	Infinitesimal Foundation - Invision Power Board
		Before Foundation's Edge, (don't get me wrong, one of my favourite books), the Foundation trilogy was epic in Science Fiction terms, by this I mean it was a trully outstanding idea that of pyschohistory etc.
		Given the Gaia solution taken by Trevize, we can safely say Prelude to Foundation and Forward Foundation are books that bring NOTHING (except entretainment of course) to the end of the Foundation/Robot series.
		I don't think that linking the robot universe with the foundation universe was the best idea Asimov ever had, but I do not think that his attempts slured the "meaning and weight" of the original stories.
	www.asimovians.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1846 (2696 words)

	The Biosphere
		The biosphere is the collective totality of life on Gaia, the living Earth.
		The concept was further taken up by the Jesuit philosopher and palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin who incorporated it into his volutionary cosmology.
		Or to develop a sustainable future (something governments, international bodies, and large corporations seem at present utterly incapable of, but who knows) and, opening up space as the high frontier, to seed the barren universe with life; innumerable orbital and nomadic biospheres, space habitats and terraformed new worlds.
	www.kheper.net /gaia/biosphere/biosphere.htm (656 words)

	CEPTUAL INSTITUTE - Ecological Self - JNRose - Gaia Foundation Journal
		This is no inference that the distinctions aren't important in some way, or serve some utility, but the interdependence of organic and inorganic segments of universing processes is ever present and for the most part - seamless.
		Our structure may have local-condensations which we identify as 'us', 'me', whatever - and those are real and valid and useful distinctions - but the over-arching reality is that our skins and our behavior-places aren't the limited locales of "where to find" each of us.
		And the essence of a purposeful universe is that the pieces are indigenous supports of the products and the emergent.
	www.ceptualinstitute.com /uiu_plus/eco-self-gaia.htm (587 words)

	GAIA - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Gaia : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		GAIA, gaia : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
		Phrases that include GAIA: gaia hypothesis, banco de gaia, gaia gear, gaia gold, gaia in popular culture, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=GAIA (186 words)

	David Brin: Foundation's Triumph
		Suddenly, the relatively straight-forward politics of the original Foundation series, as well as Asimov’s additions, are seen as only the surface of a Byzantine complex of attempts to guide the galaxy.
		Seldon’s awareness of the role of Olivaw and his own stage-managing of the future with the introduction of the Second Foundation is shown to be mere portions of the greater schemes.
		At times, Foundation’s Triumph reads like a robot novel, with their heavy examination of Asimov’s laws of robotics, while at other times, Brin is writing a Foundation novel, looking at the politics of the empire’s fall.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/foundtriumph.html (584 words)

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