Galaxia / Gaia Consciousness

Item from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The collective consciousness of Gaia — every living thing, every rock, every molecule sharing one mind. Trevize chose to extend this to the entire galaxy, ending individuality to save the species.

Also known as: Galaxia, the Gaia consciousness, planetary consciousness, the collective mind

What They Know

• Every molecule on Gaia participates in the collective consciousness — organisms, minerals, atmosphere
• Individual Gaians retain personality and preferences within the collective awareness
• Galaxia would extend Gaia's model to the entire galaxy, ending individual human consciousness as currently understood
• Trevize chose Galaxia on intuition, unable to articulate the threat that made it necessary
• The consciousness can pool mental energy from the entire planet for defense, making Gaia immune to mentalic attack
• Gaia was shaped by R. Daneel Olivaw's robots following the Zeroth Law of Robotics

Connections

• belongs_to — gaia_planet
• used_by — gaia_planet

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