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Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Omega Point and the Gaia Hypothesis

The existence of such a planet is not itself disproven by that though, should you bump into one, it presumably won't vanish. The Omega Point can be summarized and oversimplified as the idea that the Universe spirals toward a point of unification in a distant future. It has a lot of similarities with the concept of a technological singularity, including lots of supporters and detractors from different philosophical and theological camps.

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