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Hardly. It sounds much more like simply respecting their intelligence and their drive to defend themselves rather than thinking of them as dumb things. The Gaia hypothesis is more about ecological interconnectivity and wholes rather than parts and both are missing from GPs statement. The idea that orcas have agency doesn't depend on whether its useful to think of entire ecosystems as having agency or not.

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There is a component of the Gaia hypothesis which seems anthropomorphic, but this is a reductive way of understanding the theory.

The way you need to understand it is that most natural systems implement homeostasis on multiple scales, and information transferred between organisms has a somewhat communicable nature because organisms evolved and competed within a shared environment -- e.g human beings proteins are responses to environmental conditions.

I agree that that is a better understanding of what is being proposed but feel it could have been phrased with less presumption about my understanding as it comes off a bit condescending. I didn't intend to rule that out, nor go into detail. I hinted at what you're saying in referring to holism.

I was responding to the OP not your comment, which is getting at the same point more tersely.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood the referent of "you" then. :)

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