Cognitive Planetary Transitions: An Astrobiological Perspective on the "Sapiezoic Eon".
Abstract
The Earth has entered a new geological epoch - the "Anthropocene" in which human activities have become a geological force. I propose that this could potentially be regarded an Eon Boundary, the beginning of the "Sapiezoic", a transition to a fundamentally different mode of interaction between biosphere and planet, in which self-aware planetary processes become significant, a phase which may have observable analogs on other planets in the galaxy.
- Publication:
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019EPSC...13..357G