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How do you know that the intelligence is inanimate??. We know so little about what life actually is that for all we know the planet might itself be a living organism (remember the Gaia Hypothesis). Intelligence in this form might be so far beyond us that we wouldn't even recognise it as such. We'd have no way of knowing unless someone had figured it out intuitively or we could communicate with it. In either case, we're just stabbing in the dark so far as our present condition is concerned. James Lovelock's theory wasn't all that well accepted in the scientific community and whilst they see some resemblance to their latter ways of thinking, I doubt if any biologist/ecologist/evolutionary scientist would consider the planet itself to be alive. That would be too much for them to consider and would be quite outside their world paradigm. A lot of very unpalatable ideas and possibilities would be brought up if they had to consider it as factual existence.
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