Some thoughts about a recent article (13/9-09) about Peter Ward’s medea hypothesis
The medea hypothesis, as opposed to the Gaia hypothesis, is the idea that life is suicidal, i.e. left to its own it’ll self-desctruct sooner or later. As evidence that the medea perspective on life is clooser to the true state of affairs the author refers to fifteen known great mass extintions brought on by nature itself, eight of which were caused by hydrogen-sulfide bacteria, only one known great mass extintion was caused by something outside nature (a rather large piece of stone hitting the earth). Given this the authour argues that the Gaia hypothesis, which says that nature is stable and self reapiring, is flawed. Because of this Ward argues that the only hope for life’s survival is for humanity to take control of nature by technological means.
I think both perspectives are flawed, that by accepting one or the other we greatly limit our own view of the world, we form preconceptions. I think that nature is a system that we don’t understand, that nature is one way, in perhaps a multitude, by which the complexity of the universe grows exponentially as time goes on. One aspect of complex systems seems to be that they are chaotic, i.e. small changes can lead to dramatic results. Examples of these in nature are mad cow disease, viral disease, hydrogen-sulfide bacteria. As humans become more and more technologically able her systems starts to exhibit chaotic behavior as well, an example of this is the internet where small computer viruses can cause catastrophic damage. To think that any system created by man is better at keeping the nature system stable seems foolish to me since any such system would have to be complex enough to become chaotic, or as ward puts it – suicidal.
@Ira: Mhm. Obviously, a lot of humanity’s problems at the moment stems right from that selfish belief that we are on top of the world and maybe even not quite a part of it. We do our best to abstract away the underlying nature, and we’re getting so good at it that is seems we have almost forgotten that we actually are a part of this mysterious web of life. Thus we feel separate. I think this makes us lonely, and also that it makes us fail to understand how vulnerable we actually are.
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Agreed :)
And a bit less philisohpical view – why would humanity want to survive? why would it want to oulive its natural conditions? we live as long as the environment fits us, later we will either die or change – and another race or something we cannot comprehend will dominate the Earth (it is continues to exist). I don’t have any problem with it. I don’t think humanity should be as selfish as to suppose itself the top of the world, or to have a right to survive on account of other species.