Sensation, calculation, action.

A signal is sent. High above a chemical is released.

A nearby bloom of algae takes heed. Genes are switched on. Dimethyl sulfide is produced and wafts into the atmosphere. Gradually at first, then faster, clouds form overhead. The water cools.

Elsewhere, another signal is sent up towards the light. A distant limb releases a pulse of nutrients and growth factors. Prochlorococcus blooms, creating a dense patch of chlorophyll. Sunlight pours down onto these antennae. The water warms.

Between these two patches, air currents begin to move. Chaotically at first, then taking shape. A gyre is formed. It grows as it pulls energy from other air masses. It becomes a hurricane.

The hurricane flows over the land, washing nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, silica into the sea. Feeds life. Life takes a great breath of carbon, and rains down to the sea floor.

This is good.