Re: Gaia, splicing mixotrophs

[Dan Fiscus <***>]

Ya'll,

Re: your ideas below of splicing chloroplasts into humans...

This would not likely work from the perspective I take that
community-ecosystem is required and of founding, creative
power, not merely of emergent, later, higher order or
assemblage or even symbiosis type power. If it were
functionally successful for life over eons to have autotrophs
and heterotrophs in the same body, don't you think that we'd
see that combo everywhere? The fact that we do not, that this
occurence is rare (some dinoflagellates and others can be
either auto- or heterotrophs depending on needs) is a big
hint and clue that the relation between these two crucial forms
is not only one of necessary, obligate interdependence (no
organisms can go it alone, no systems are known to exist with
only one type of trophy, auto- or hetero-, all systems so far
have both). Beyond necessity of interdependence also seems
the necessity of *relating through the medium of the
environment*. The space and time gaps are not accidental, but
functional - in that functional use of space is the enfoldment of
the environment as a functional, active, participatory role in life
in its community-ecosystem form.

The same logic applies to males and females, and perhaps to
right-brain and left-brain dominance.

Some thoughts...

Dan

Judith Rosen wrote:

>     David Macy wrote: I agree with you that this will probably entail
>     that we either
>     bring some of our native environment (including plants and
>     animals) with us,
>     or that we change ourselves so that we are adapted to these
>     places. I can't
>     see, for instance, any reason why we are precluded from developing
>     the
>     technology to become autotrophs (chemotrophs for instance).
>
>
> What an interesting thought! Perhaps we could replicate the inclusion 
> of chloroplasts into plant cells and become self-sufficient little 
> photosynthetic factories, ourselves. We'd be green, though. But hey; 
> it works for Kermit, so it should work for us, too.
>
> Judith