The 'Gaia Eye Game'

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...play the Gaia Eye Game and discover how the planet really works,

where we as a species fit in, and why the Gaian world view

may be essential for our future actions...

 

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• unlock the history of the Universe through the lens of the

Cosmic Calendar

 

• compare the two world views implicit in James Lovelock's vision of Gaia as a 'living planet'

 

 • muse on the intriguing observation by Lynn Margulis that

'the vast complex and diverse metabolism that run the Earth system are all found in bacteria'

 

• unravel the complexity of systems operating within other systems at all scales from the cell to the planet

 

• explore the practicalities of how organisms and their environment evolve together

 

• find out what symbiosis and networks have to do with chains and ladders

 

• experience the dynamics of feedback and self-regulation

 

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"There can be no prescription, no set of rules, for living within Gaia.

For each of our different actions there are only consequences."

James Lovelock