Gaia

Location from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A living planet — every organism, rock, ocean, and air molecule participates in one collective consciousness. The third path between Foundation's technology and Empire's force.

Also known as: the Living Planet, Gaia

What They Know

• Every molecule on Gaia is part of one consciousness — organisms, soil, ocean, atmosphere all participate
• Gaians can draw on the collective mental energy of the entire planet, making them immune to mentalic attack
• Gaia chose to remain hidden from the galaxy for millennia, influencing events only when necessary
• Trevize's choice to extend Gaia to the galaxy — Galaxia — would end individual human consciousness as a concept
• Gaia was shaped by robots following the Zeroth Law — protecting humanity required protecting it from itself
• The planet's collective intelligence is vast but slow; individual Gaians think at normal speed but can access deeper processing

Connections

• borders — sayshell
• contains — gaia_consciousness
• ally_of — trevize

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