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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know if it's the same thing, but the "Gaia" concept has been used in fiction before (e.g. Asimov's Foundation's Edge actually using the name "Gaia", and perhaps Tepper's Raising The Stones and Grass). I don't know about movies though...a semi-random linking took me too Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, it having a specific "Gaia" reference as a core part of the plot. I specifically mention it because of its earlier example of CGI. |
No, Gaia is an ersatz-religion. In Avatar, all of the plants' roots are connected and there is an energy current flowing, just like in our brain. Plus, the inhabitants as well as a lot of the animals have "connectors" that they can use to physically link their brains to other animals or trees and such. So the "smurfs" can connect to a tree and up/download memories (hearing their ancestors, for example) as well as control animals making things like flying dragons and riding horse-like creatures much easier.