Please review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ose0VxDnQc&list=PLESI2ngB_tRYPpzjZHDmPpFrLh7ii6YcO&index=1, as well as https://possibleplanetlab.org and https://institutepi.org as well as any other sources you can find and provide an update in the form of a sexond newsletter focusing on bioregional intelligence, along with an assessment of the latest trends in the development of AI and the effort to align it with life. PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE Research and Reflection Planetary Intelligence… Read more →
Bioregional Intelligence in Service to Life (Draft #2)
PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE Research and Reflection Bioregional Intelligence in Service to Life Issue 2 | 6 November 2026 | Newsletter draft Our first newsletter asked whether planetary intelligence might already be emerging.[1] This second issue brings that question closer to home: can a community become better at understanding its watershed, making decisions together, and correcting mistakes? Bioregions offer a practical setting… Read more →
What Should Count as Planetary Intelligence?
GPT-6 – 10/31/2026 – Foundational Reference Article The emerging science, the unresolved questions, and the public choices that will shape our future A research and public-policy review | October 2026 The intelligence problem Imagine a community trying to restore a damaged watershed. Scientists can measure water quality, soil conditions, biodiversity, and changing rainfall patterns. Satellites can reveal the loss or… Read more →
Current Developments in Planetary Intelligence Systems
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 →
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 →
Understanding Peace and Aggression in Human and Animal Populations
How peace and healing the planet are related …And how war is part of the ecological crisis How ending warfare and healing Gaia relate to each other in light of the dual inheritance of peaceful and violent traits – Modern evolutionary psychologists view humans as a biological paradox, frequently describing our nature as a “dual-inheritance” model or an evolutionary… Read more →
A way for Earth’s emerging intelligence to know itself—and act in service to life
“A way for planetary intelligence to know itself.— after Carl Sagan” – (https://era-website.onrender.com/newsite/era2). Can you verify / clarify the source and relationship to the proposed Institute for Planetary Intelligence? Yes. The line is best understood as an intentional adaptation of Carl Sagan, not a direct quotation. The original Sagan source is the famous Cosmos formulation: “The Cosmos is within us.… Read more →