"mineral evolution" & "a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . ."

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Some things never change.  Thank goodness!  

>This guy has no credentials […]

Kevin Kelly has written a series of interesting and well-received books, plus his work with Wired magazine back in that fertile early '90's time and place - Multimedia Gulch in San Francsico, where we were turning the Web into a viable communications medium (among other efforts back in that day:  http://MorphsOutpostOnTheDigitalFrontier.com, for example), and he continues to hold a respected place in cyberspace.  He's pointing to a paper written by somebody else.

"The theory of "mineral evolution" -- the idea that the Earth's rocks
are dynamic "species" which emerged over time, sometimes in concert
with living things -- is a radical new idea…"
continues: 
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/12/technology_a_ge.php