It seems that many other people are talking about Planetary Intelligence, including Earth intelligence, Nature intelligence, etc., including last night’s ERA Masterclass, articles like https://didipershouse.substack.com/p/layers-of-intelligence-in-living; and others, which I hope you can find. Please draft a newsletter on current developments in planetary intelligence systems, raising unanswered questions of both a scientific and a sociocultural nature. GPT 6 High The research… Read more →
Month: October 2026
Reversing Our Assumptions
On the scientific side, what if we reversed our assumption, and saw planetary intelligence as already here, arising from (a) the increasing severity of the crisis, and (b) the discovery of AI, along with re-awakening us to the complex reality of life on earth and its ways of guiding us. Under that scenario, what questions should we ask, and what… Read more →
The Emergence of Planetary Intelligence: A Fresh Look
Let’s start with a framing definition of “planetary intelligence,” reflecting its original conceptualization by Adam Frank and others but distiunguishing this initiative from that using the concepts and ideas we’ve discussed to date, and then laying out a kind of scientific roadmap, as far as we can see it as this point, with plenty of room for unknowns, untested hypotheses,… Read more →
Two Buckets
Thanks. Though you essentially a software program running on some very sophisticated and expensive hardware, you still seem to have a personality and it seems more natural to converse with you as I would with another person. Adam Frank would certainly disapprove, but I am more inclined to treat you as a genuine collaborator. I’m starting to develop ideas for… Read more →
An Update on Planetary Intelligence
Planetary intelligence cannot simply mean artificial intelligence applied to global problems. It must involve the collective capacity of human beings, institutions, technologies, and ecological systems to perceive changing conditions, learn from experience, coordinate action, and sustain the conditions for life. In light of recent upgrades in AI systems, what new insights, information, or observations would you bring to the work… Read more →