Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We often imagine that our planet might be a sentient entity - Gaia - but could something like this evolve under known science? And might a conscious world be something we might create in the future? Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/pbEH95R6V4g Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 312a, October 17, 2021 Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: A.T. Long Jerry Guern Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana LegionTech Studios Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:26.3	using the link in the description.
0:28.8	Imagine for a moment an entire planet has one gigantic brain, a single functioning mind
0:34.7	of unbelievable scope.
0:36.8	Now, imagine that was your mind.
0:39.5	So it's another sci-fi Sunday here on Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur, where we
0:53.3	pick concepts regularly
0:54.5	seen in science fiction and look at how scientifically realistic they are, what variations
0:59.9	or parallels might be allowed in science, and what are the unexpected things we might
1:04.4	see as a result.
1:07.1	For today's topic of sentient plants or world brains, and the sort of massive minds
1:11.2	these might hold, we have a bit of a twist from the norm, and that these are typically
1:15.6	considered weird or improbable in a lot of science fiction, but seem considerably more likely
1:20.6	unknown science. Generally that's reversed, where something in sci-fi is considered
1:25.4	ridiculously easy, but in reality it probably isn't
1:28.0	even remotely possible. Such being the case, we do not need to contemplate pure theory
1:32.9	or fringe science to consider the concept of a world-spanning mind. Nonetheless, there are
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