"'God' is a noun created by humans, though He Ya thinks Homo sapiens are arrogant, she too has imperceptibly begun to use the language system created by humans to communicate, establishing rules that humans can understand."
If one strips away the trappings of theology and belief, Duan Mingyuan felt that beings like He Ya resembled something more like the will born from the planet itself.
Not all civilizations give birth to theological beliefs; many cosmologists last century had already proposed the hypothesis of a 'planetary will'—they believed the planet itself was a brain capable of autonomous consciousness, and natural disasters were one of the means by which planetary consciousness adjusted itself.
