Intelligente Steine

Ich bin auf eine kleine Geschichte gestoßen, die vielleicht etwas Diskussionsstoff liefern könnte...
Im Grunde eine recht luzide Beschreibung dessen, was eine Emergenz ausmacht, und eine interessante Sichtweise, die Intelligenz als Emergenz der Steine anzusehen, aus welchen dieser Planet besteht...
Look, here is a tree in the garden and every summer it produces apples. And we call it an appletree, because the tree ‘apples’. That`s what he does!
Now here is a solar system inside a galaxy, and one of the peculiarly things of the system is, that at least on the planet earth there are people. In just the same way, as an appletree ‘apples’.
Now maybe two million years ago somebody came from another galaxy in a flying saucer and had a look at the solar system and they looked it over and shrugged their shoulders and said: „Just a bunch of rocks!“, and they went away.
Later on, maybe two million years later, they came around and they looked at it again and they said: „Excuse me. We thought, it was a bunch of rocks, but it's peopleing. And it's alive after all and it's done something intelligent.“
You see: we grow out of this world in EXACTLY the same way, that the apples grow on the appletree. If evolution means anything, it means THAT.
But you see, we curiously twist it. We say: „Well first of all in the beginning there was nothing than gas and rock. And then intelligence happened to arising it, like a sort of fungus or slime on the top of the whole thing.“ We think it in a way, that disconnects the intelligence from the rocks.
Where there are rocks: Watch out! Because the rocks are going eventually to come alive!
Alan Watts: The Tao of Philosophy
Im Grunde eine recht luzide Beschreibung dessen, was eine Emergenz ausmacht, und eine interessante Sichtweise, die Intelligenz als Emergenz der Steine anzusehen, aus welchen dieser Planet besteht...