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Why couldn't intelligence also be a solar-system process?

Or a galaxy-scale process?

Indeed, why not? ;)

There may yet be something to Teilhard de Chardin's take on the Noosphere which exists in a matrix of consciousness that spans planets, solar systems, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and indeed universes!

I like how he theorized the ultimate result of this process as a "birth of god".

> The Omega Point is a supposed future when everything in the universe spirals toward a final point of unification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point

Today, Gaia.

Tommorow, the stars themselves are demons. The Millisecond Pulsar is often mistaken for being Lucifer, but that’s actually Sirius - according to astrophysics, of course.

Neo-Astrology returns from the stargate, waving a dog-eared copy of Zetetic Scholar, and smirks at us.