CortezPearls
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I do believe our planet is Alive. Sentient? G-d only knows!Walking around Green Lake in Seattle this morning on a sunny day, this very thought occurred to me. As a perverted deviation of this thread, might we consider Earth as an evolutionary biological organism that has developed this color scheme to serve as a beacon of sorts for interstellar observers, or is it just happenstance? Our ongoing search for viable exoplanets is based on chromatic analyses of their atmospheres. Of course such a theory is based upon the ability to 'see'.
But I was hooked on the "Gaia" theory when doing my Master's degree, too many years ago!
Our biological ability to SEE evolved from our primate ancestors, we use colors to distinguish edible fruit from unripe ones, from dangerous fruits and animals. We are just lucky we see the way we do!
What we see looks different when seen under a different set of optical equipment (we need both eyes and a brain capable of decoding the imagery). Different animals will see the world according to their "equipment". We see the same thing and we will all actually see it differently. This has always fascinated me.