The Beginnings of Planetary Intelligence (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1No45POlYpi-Pydpp62pTXU3LiFQgDdKr/view?usp=share_link) The goal of Illuminate is to “transform your content into engaging AI‑generated audio discussions.” You give it a URL and it creates a short NotebookLM-style overview. Transcript: This conversation is powered by Google Illuminate. Check out illuminate.google.com for more. Today, we’re diving into the concept of Planetary Intelligence. It sounds like something straight… Read more →
Category: Planetary Intelligence
How Can We Understand Ourselves Better?
I’d like to think about planetary intelligence as getting to know and understand ourselves better, from the planetary down to the bioregional, local, and personal level. If we can make available to everyone a sense of the whole—of Gaia, a miracle even without the fake spiritual trappings that some claim to have special access to—of the planet and all her… Read more →
An Outline for a Themed Dialogue at DSRE
Looking at https://youtu.be/op3ZP5RwS_M, help me refine an outline for a “themed dialogue” at the Design School for Regenerating Earth on planetary and bioregional intelligence, highlighting the important questions that the conversation should address. Here’s my thinking: (1) Background (working with AI on the Possible Planet book, wanting to understand AI’s highest potentials, David Grinspoon et al on “planetary intelligence”); (2)… Read more →
The Next Step
It seems to me that the next step for the lab is to develop a community of interest around the idea of planetary intelligence. It makes sense to have that be bioregional, as one of the first tasks is to build a practical example of bioregional intelligence using the Genesee Finger Lakes region. I’d like to extend an invitation to… Read more →
A Practical Research Program for Developing Planetary Intelligence
Saturday, December 20, 2025 First, a clarification of framing (important) Planetary intelligence is not an end goal. It is an ongoing capacity—like public health, democracy, or ecological stewardship—that must continuously adapt as conditions change. A more accurate statement is: Planetary intelligence is humanity’s developing ability to sense planetary conditions, understand their meaning, make collective decisions grounded in reality and fairness,… Read more →
The State of the World Forum’s “Center for Planetary Intelligence”
Review https://www.stateoftheworld.forum/the-center-for-planetary-intelligence and any related work or information you can find, and connect it with the work we have been doing at https://possibleplanetlab.org. Should we revise or revisit any of our proposed research program elements? What do you make of “cosmic intelligence”? Do we see convergences in the collective consciousness? Can we transcend some of the unresolved political conflicts we… Read more →
The Intelligence of Nature
Below is a synthesized, cross-disciplinary account of what we actually know—scientifically, philosophically, and empirically—about the intelligence of nature, and where the boundaries of that knowledge still lie. What We Know About the Intelligence of Nature 1. Nature is not random; it is organized, adaptive, and problem-solving Across biology, ecology, and Earth system science, one conclusion is no longer controversial: natural… Read more →
Building Bioregional Intelligence, Part 2 (Actually a Prequel)
Below is a conceptual prologue—deliberately non-technical in tone, but rigorous in scope—that can introduce later material on dashboards, data architectures, and AI-enabled commons. It is written to stand on its own as a framing essay on Building Bioregional Intelligence, using the Genesee Finger Lakes (GFL) as an illustrative case without treating it as exceptional. Building Bioregional Intelligence A prologue From… Read more →
Our Accomplishments in 2025
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ChatGPT Responds (12/13/2025)
Taking into account the comments from other AI models, at https://possibleplanetlab.org/2025/12/13/geminis-view/ https://possibleplanetlab.org/2025/12/13/groks-view/ https://possibleplanetlab.org/2025/12/13/claudes-response/ https://possibleplanetlab.org/2025/12/13/perplexitys-take/ https://possibleplanetlab.org/2025/12/13/qwens-reaction/ —how should we reassess our overall concept of planetary intelligence, and the optimal research program to get there? What criticisms are valid? What new ideas should be incorporated? Did any of the comments bother you, make you feel defensive, or have any other reaction? Short… Read more →