Not Gaian supermind!
*If* you think the mind is just a different sort of thing to the physical stuff, you want Cartesian dualism. Personally, I know no evidence for the mind being a different sort of thing to physical stuff, so I see consciousness (and related phenomena) as an emergent property of the right sort of sufficiently complex system.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 7:38, Reply)