Kill yourself peacefully: Part-1

This writing has many direct derivations from the “Gaia Hypothesis” and the “Daisy world simulations”, something I was going through just to keep my mind active during my up-country (read village) sales job in the heartland of Marathawada.

For the uninitiated Gaia Hypothesis states that “the Life itself is the single largest (don’t go by the mass or any such quantitative means) self sustaining and deliberate living organism of the planet or any such living complex systems”; Leading to a notion that Life will try to sustain Life for the longest of terms even though the living beings behave on Darwinian rules of survival of fittest.

The Daisy World Simulations proved the concept to be true. Indulge me with a little more details. In the simulation, in its simplest of forms, the hypothetical planet consists of two species; the black daisies and the white ones, both following on Darwinian rules. Thus the white ones push the planet cooler and the black ones push it warmer. As in any planetary system the life is sustainable in a narrow band of temperature, the daisies are the only things regulating the planet’s temperature.

Then the simulators played their part of the game and turned the Hypothetical Sun’s energy on the planet in every way possible. Surprisingly, the black ones which absorb and flourish under higher heat conditions in the temp-band started declining when the heat crossed a limit and the white ones flourished pushing the temperature down into the band. The vice versa went for the reverse turn of the regulator.

We might ask here, where is the survival instinct, that should have made the planet inhabitable in any side turn of the planet. Rather how did the two species of daisies communicated with each other to act without regard of Darwinian rules to sustain the planetary life. Or who asked them to. They call that thing Gaia (in older terminologies they call it Nature).

……TBC… Write when I get some decent whiskey next…....