{"id":2949,"date":"2016-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/glenn-edney-new-scientific-research-suggests-our-ocean-floor-bacteria-is-a-super-organism-with-a-mind\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:15:31","slug":"glenn-edney-new-scientific-research-suggests-our-ocean-floor-bacteria-is-a-super-organism-with-a-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/glenn-edney-new-scientific-research-suggests-our-ocean-floor-bacteria-is-a-super-organism-with-a-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Edney: New Scientific Research Suggests our Ocean Floor Bacteria is a Super-organism with a 'Mind'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are recently found, ocean floor bacterial networks, acting as one super-organism?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

Some researchers believe that bacteria in ocean sediments are connected by a network of microbial nanowires. These fine protein filaments could shuttle
\n electrons back and forth, allowing communities of bacteria to act as one giant super-organism.<\/p>\n

In James Cameron\u2019s movie Avatar, the inhabitants, the Na'vi people of Pandora, plug themselves into a neural network that links to all the elements of
\n Pandora\u2019s biosphere, from phosphorescent plants to pterodactyl-like birds. It turns out that Pandora's interconnected ecosystem may have a parallel
\n back here on our planet: sulphur-eating bacteria that live in muddy sediments beneath the ocean floor, as a tightly coupled living mat or network.
\n \n<\/p>\n

Going back 4 billion years where bacteria have been living in the ocean and creating the conditions for life to prosper on our planet \u2013 evolving the conditions
\n for multi cellular life to eventually we humans. <\/p>\n

There is emerging evidence that bacteria in the oceans form massive mats connected with things called nanowires. These nanowires allow the bacteria to
\n breathe externally from their bodies \u2013 so it is collective breathing \u2013 and that they could be connecting as a neural network \u2013 so it is possible that
\n the ocean floor is a vast neural network or ocean mind, with deep thought \u2013 10,000 years of thought process that we humans may only take a couple of
\n seconds to grok. What kind of thoughts might the ocean be having? <\/p>\n

We are finding out that we live on a planet that is alive and that the ocean is a living being.<\/p>\n

Hence, James Lovelock\u2019s Gaia Theory that our planet is gigantic super living organism.<\/p>\n

Here is the original Our Planet description posted on the world wide web in 1996: http:\/\/www.ourplanet.org\/original-site\/gaia.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only in the last 60 years has man created the tools to look around underwater \u2013 with masks, oxygen tanks and more lately bathyspheres.<\/p>\n

As we become more sensitive and knowing, immersing ourselves into the sea and becoming one with the marine environment and ecology - makes it possible
\n to dissolve into a greater knowing of the ocean - to osmotically take in information.<\/p>\n

To address the big oceanic issues, in Glenn\u2019s opinion - it\u2019s about addressing our own personal relationship.<\/p>\n

Western civilisation including we here in NZ have over the years become more distant and separated from nature. We have in numerous ways become disengaged
\n from natural processes and from our planet as a whole. <\/p>\n

Note NCEA -the National Certificate of Educational Achievement in high schools in NZ that they do not teach ecology. It is not part of the curriculum.
\n Thus students are leaving school not realising that they are an intrinsic part of the web of life within the biosphere. Now we know why the young are
\n disconnected \u2013 they are being deliberately severed from our planet. Whereas Maori children in many cases intuitively understand they are an extension
\n of Papatuanuku, our planet. <\/p>\n

This interview covers:<\/h3>\n

The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently passing a resolution to protect 30% of the world\u2019s oceans by 2030 At this meeting 129 countries
\n or 89% said yes \u2013 and signed. But 29 countries said NO. And 35 abstained from voting. Note that \u2018Clean Green\u2019 NZ was one of the countries that abstained.
\n That NZ could not in this time of declining fisheries and in an ecologically challenged world, mindfully look at this important 30% protection, particularly
\n for our children and grandchildren\u2019s future, gives us cause for concern<\/p>\n

Yet, in Antarctica 24 countries and the European Union agreed to protect 1.5 million square kilometres of the Ross Sea - the largest marine protected area
\n on our planet, so far. 1 million square ks will be a \u2018no take\u2019 marine reserve. This is worth celebrating. Yet it is set to expire in 35 years time.
\n Why? <\/p>\n

The NZ administered Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will be possibly the 4th largest protected marine reserve on earth. Covering 620,000 square kilometres, and
\n the most significant of a fully protected area. It will be 35 times larger than the combined area of all of New Zealand\u2019s existing 44 marine reserves.<\/p>\n

The following activities will be prohibited in the sanctuary: <\/h3>\n