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	Hotel Isleta de Gaia Guatemala
		The scientific Gaia theory sees the Earth as a physiological system that is, in a sense, alive, at least to the extent that the climate and chemical composition of the surface are self-regulated at a state favorable for life.
		The more so since, like her mythical image, the theory sees the Earth to be regulated by an evolutionary process that is merciless to those species that affect the environment in a manner unfavorable for their progeny.
		The Gaia movement calls for a fundamental shift in the priorities of western (and now global) culture from a relentlessly parasitic civilization based on endless, non sustainable economic "growth" at the expense of nature towards a sustainable world order based on ecological principles and respect for both natural and cultural diversity.
	www.isleta-de-gaia.com /html/body_gb-gaia.html (377 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Talk:Gaia theory -
		Gaia hypothesis- A subset of the above article; this is a discussion of Dr. James Lovelock's ideas on Gaia theory.
		Gaia theory even in the strict sense of Lovelock and Margulis is at best "soft science" like economics, and may be best approached through ideas like value of Earth.
		The Gaia theory article then could be buried and destroyed, as may be befitting a source of such controversy, and yet people could still use the term "Gaia theory" with abandon in the different articles.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ta/Talk:Gaia_theory (3503 words)

	Talk:Theory of evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A theory is, e.g., that the sun revolves around a stationary earth; or, that the earth revolves on its axis.
		Of course, the articles on evolution and theory of evolution are not duplicate articles, since as you yourself state, their content and goal are different.
		Theories which will likely not be accepted in the evolution article, because either proved to be false, or non-proved by scientific means mostly.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Theory_of_evolution (5284 words)

	Safe Water Group:The Green Pages: Gaia FAQs
		The body of theory, developed in 1980 by biochemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis, that models life on Earth as a self-organizing and self-regulating complex adaptive system, in continual interaction with the atmosphere, oceans, and mineral substrate.
		We are accustomed to thinking of “man” and “nature” (or “economy” and “ecology”) as separate, unrelated domains, but Gaia theory teaches us that we are a part of, not apart from, the biological world, and that whatever we do to the planet, we do to ourselves as well.
		The Gaia movement has many different manifestations worldwide —political (environmental activism and the anti-corporate-globalization movement); economic (alternative “green” investment strategies and ecologically-based critiques of conventional economic theory); technological (industrial ecology, alternative energy, ecological architecture and community design, etc.); and cultural (stewardship theory, green spirituality, deep ecology, etc.).
	www.safewatergroup.org /GREEN_SECTION/Gaia_FAQs.htm (657 words)

	GAIA International Mission Statement
		GAIA International (Global Awareness Interdisciplinary Alliance) is a scholarly and educational organization whose mission is to sponsor projects, events, and publications that promote ecological awareness, understanding, and responsibility in every academic discipline and in every domain of human endeavor.
		The Gaia movement calls for a fundamental shift in the priorities of western (and now global) culture from a relentlessly parasitic civilization based on endless, nonsustainable economic "growth" at the expense of nature towards a sustainable world order based on ecological principles and respect for both natural and cultural diversity.
		The principal role of GAIA International is to play host; that is, to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and research among scholars, educators, and citizens who are pursuing various aspects of Gaian theory and practice, and thereby to increase the visibility of Gaian thinking in the academic and societal mainstream.
	www.morrigan.net /gaia-intl/mission.htm (901 words)

	Jones & Jones \| The Zen of Global Warming
		Darwin remains a theory still regardless of the views of evolution scientists or Biblical literalists in Kansas.
		Nor does long accepted theory assure accuracy (chemists still mutter "phlogiston" to those they believe bombastically self-assured and until August 2006 Pluto was a "planet.") Precise measurement does not imply accuracy.
		Models, at best can present theories in a form that is easier to visualize; however, they are dangerous in giving us a feeling of confidence that we know a forthcoming reality.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/item/2007/0103/jone/jones_kyoto.html (2880 words)

	The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection
		Gaia theory, which states that organisms both affect and regulate their environment, poses an interesting problem to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologists and provides an exciting set of phenomena for artificial-life investigation.
		The phenomena itself is the controversial Gaia theory (Lovelock, 1991, 1979; Lovelock and Margulis, 1974), which, in a nutshell, states that (a) the interactions between the biological and physicochemical realms are bidirectional, and (b) via the feedback loops composed of these interactions, the biota can indirectly control the environmental conditions in which they live.
		In conclusion, the details of relationships between Gaia and natural selection are far from resolved, and this research takes but a small step by showing that two interesting Gaian phenomena, extensive recycling and chemical-ratio regulation, are natural consequences of resource competition and local-buffer formation among evolving populations.
	www.idi.ntnu.no /grupper/ai/eval/guild/guild.html (10746 words)

	The Need For a New Model of the Earth The Living and Dynamic Earth
		Referred to as the Gaia Hypothesis, the biosphere is envisioned as an integrated whole, a super-organism, that not only evolved with the Earth, but also changed the geological environment to suit life.
		Endosymbiotic Theory basically states that the components of the cell (i.e., the organelles) are actually primitive organisms (e.g., bacteria) that formed mutual (symbiotic) relationships that made up a larger organism.
		If the dynamo theory were at work, then the molten rock of the core would have to move at speeds of several kilometers per hour, an impossible scenario.
	www.livingcosmos.com /earth.htm (12423 words)

	Bringing it Down to Earth - A Fractal Approach
		If Chaos theory is so important to modeling the behavior of complex systems - that is, the behavior of the natural world, then perhaps it has a similar role in the complex workings of astrology, for astrology also reveals a subtle relationship between simplicity and complexity; it too imitates life.
		In chaos theory, order and randomness are twin manifestations of an underlying determinism, and in astrology the predetermined unitary principle generates the lower manifold level.
		Parameterization is a theory of general features, and such a theory sees the astrological chart as an interplay of the dynamics of the planets and signs, the functions - what the planets do, not what they might become, and certainly not the eventual undigestible mass of particles.
	www.fullmoon.nu /dntoerth.htm (6946 words)

	Environment, Capitalism and Socialism
		However, given the domination of mid to late 20th century political and economic theory by positivism (in the advanced capitalist world) and vulgar "Marxism" (in the Stalinist-ruled countries), it was inevitable that the revival of ecological thinking could only find expression in a re-emergence of idealist, even directly religious, modes of thought.
		James Lovelock developed the notion in The Gaia Hypothesis that the planet itself may be a living organism, naming it Gaia (after the Greek goddess of the earth) and arguing that life on Earth constantly reproduces the meteorological and hydrological environment that underpins its existence.
		Gaia has withstood devastations far beyond our powers at least thirty times during the three-and-a-half billion years of her life-span.
	www.dsp.org.au /dsp/ECS/Chapter4.htm (4941 words)

	HiddenMysteries ThE-Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A fresh field-harmonic analogues, in its finite nature, field-geometric spectral balance and purity operationally rooted in the "always balanced" spectral signature of a field-harmonically relative infinite-grid field-geometry or Aries field-geometry.
		A stagnant field-harmonic analogues, in its finite nature, spectral qualities that deviate destructively from a finite field-geometric spectral analogue of the infinite field-geometric spectral balance of the field-harmonically relative Aries field-harmonic that links a given dimension to the infinite.
		Cancer growth seems to analogue oranur and DOR energy processes in the dynamic quality of its growth and in the shrunken bodily stature of the host, as Wilhelm Reich first observed.
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /themagazine/vol6/x13f9.shtml (7106 words)

	Gaia Research - Research - Natural Health Strategies Against Aids
		Medical politics however, biased towards the germ theory (rather than the milieu in which they are predisposed to proliferate), mitigates strongly against the fair publication of alternative scientific arguments to the HIV thesis, despite their high merits.
		AIDS science as practiced by the medical establishment is in fact not science at all, just a predominant theory which has too many financially and legally vested interests to undergo the vigorous evolution which usually accompanies true objective science.
		From a natural health perspective, the new anti-AIDS frontier pioneered by the Gaia Research Institute is that of the free radical paradigm, comprising health optimisation via benign natural antimicrobial agents — botanicals, colloidal silver, trace elements and oxygen — plus antioxidants and copper, zinc, manganese and selenium trace mineral-dependent endogenous antioxidant enzyme induction.
	www.gaiaresearch.co.za /natstrat.html (7329 words)

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		The enactive theory claims, then, that colours are extradermal (against Hardin's subjectivism) but nonetheless are not independent of the existence of perceivers (against objectivism).
		The enactive theory might claim (this is my example, not theirs) that the red-green opponency system in the vision of certain organisms gave them an evolutionary advantage because it enabled them to easily spot red berries against a green background.
		Note one thing that the enactive theory does not say: although the theory claims that there may be causes for why our vision sees some things as red, and these causes are related to the causes of the things being red, it does not claim that our visual system causes them to be red.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~davidt/World.html (8579 words)

	Chris Goldspink: Modelling social systems as complex: Towards a social simulation meta-model
		There is growing interest in the theory of complex systems with a significant extension of that theory to social systems (Eve et al 1997, McKelvey 1997; McKelvey 1999; Goldspink 1999; Marion 1999).
		At their worst, such models can prove misleading if taken to be reliable analogues of real world phenomena as some are now claiming about neo-classical economic models built on assumptions of 'utility maximising rational actors' (Ormerod 1995; Ormerod 1998; Hodgson 1996; Arthur et al 1997).
		A theory of social systems as complex systems must therefore be capable of being scaled at multiple levels, social systems within social systems and conceived of as multiple systems of intersecting networks of interaction.
	jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /3/2/1.html (9667 words)

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		The opening lecture: The Theory of Common Descent by Richard D. Keynes and a Public Lecture: Are We Alone in the Universe by Paul Davies.
		The various theories about this problem are characterized by intellectual excellence [2], but the experimental verification is still in initial stage [3].
		Gaia principles by J. Lovelock and L. Margulis had been considered for the establishment of an environment inside the MUT since life means plasticity and it can be adapted and adapt the surroundings by bringing climate and biological balance.
	www.ictp.trieste.it /~chelaf/summariescontrib.html (11949 words)

	There Are No Limits To The Open Society
		I say "explicit" theory, because if the far future is ignored, it is tacitly assumed that present value of the far future is negligible.
		Penrose has shown that in Einstein's theory of gravity, the gravitational potential energy of a closed universe is equal in magnitude but opposite in sign to sum total of all the positive energies.
		But any theory of unlimited progress--which means progress to literal infinity at the end of time--necessarily implies that the knowledge and the physical power of life will be infinite at time's end, whether or not one wishes to use traditional language to describe this end state.
	www.eeng.dcu.ie /~tkpw/tcr/volume-03/number-02/node1.html (5931 words)

	The Earth System, Second Edition - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Here we recognize that these problems have analogues from Earth history: The geological past is the key to the present and to the future.
		Offers an innovative systems theory approach that allows for a new way of organizing information from a variety of disciplines as well as of predicting responses of systems to disturbance.
		Offersan innovative systems theory approach that allows for a new way of organizinginformation from a variety of disciplines as well as of predicting responses ofsystems to disturbance.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0131420593.html (2023 words)

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		A theory of morphogenesis, in which the mysteries creation were seemingly revealed, was projected wordlessly by the book.
		Erich was a missionary of general evolution theory, a whole systems theory evolving from the work of a number of twentieth-century scientists interested in conceptualizing a science of the all-and-everything.
		The three concepts of the Orphic trinity (Chaos, Gaia, and Eros) belong to a continuous tradition flowing from the Paleolithic past to the present.
	cimabue1.home.mindspring.com /11-10-02.htm (1529 words)

	Leonardo On-Line: The Politics of the Artificial
		Hence we have two contested terms--- "meaning" and "reality"---that severely undermine the certainties on which a theory and practice of design was built in the first modernity.
		Both the Gaia metaphor and the Goddess narrative, which is at the core of ecofeminist spiritual belief, have generated a strong critique of instrumental reason which the ecofeminists identify with patriarchy.
		We need to ask ourselves whether the construction of such analogues is where designers can most usefully concentrate their talent and the economy its capital.
	mitpress.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/margolin.html (7033 words)

	homestudio - revue audiolab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The numerical ratios which form the musical scale were developed into a Universal theory and projected by the Pythagoreans into the heavens, where by analogy, as all moving bodies produce sound so too must the planets form the Music of the Spheres.
		Audio Recording (Analogue or Digital) is a mnemonic technology in which sound is made to flow back and forth as an electro-mechanical analogue, of an event distant in temporal and spatial terms, to debouche into architectural space and/or the space of the ear, to re-create an equivalent aural experience.
		Such analogue synthesis, which could be considered less radical than the player piano, have aquiesced to the contemporary coupling of digital sampling possibilities with MIDI.
	homestudio.thing.net /revue/content/helyer.htm (4296 words)

	WWW-BIOREGIONAL Archive: Gaia International (Proposal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		GAIA International (Global Awareness Interdisciplinary Alliance) is a
		The main purpose of GAIA International is therefore to
		theory and practice, and thereby to increase the visibility of Gaian
	www.clr.toronto.edu /ARCHIVES/HMAIL/bioregion/0068.html (915 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. Their hypothesis simply postulated that the climate and chemical composition of the Earth’s surface environment is, and has been, regulated by the biota in some degree at a state tolerable for the perseverance of life itself.
		GAIA Hypothesis: History of the Universe and Life
		Lovelock, James, and Lynn Margulis, Atmospheric homoestasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia hypothesis, Tellus, 26, 2-9, 1974.
	www.asp.ucar.edu /~dfb/cu/ian/ClimateFeedbacks2.htm (953 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould-Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
		Darwin based his theory of natural selection on the dismal view of Malthus that growth in population must outstrip food supply and lead to overt battle for dwindling resources.
		We all have a tendency to spin universal theories from a limited domain of surrounding circumstance.
		Instead, he continually observed the benefits of mutual aid in coping with an exterior harshness that threatened all alike and could not be overcome by the analogues of warfare and boxing.
	www.marxists.org /subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm (4204 words)

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