He believes that expanding the study of life sciences to the core of our world and the depths of outer space will help us find distant relatives of our own Earth -- planets that could also sustain life.
To explain why contintental plates drift on the surface of the Earth's molten mantle, Maruyama argues that continents actually have life cycles. Old, cold plates on continental fringes sink to “plate graveyards” deep in the Earth’s mantle, and then rise again, creating volcanoes fueled by three-dimensional convection movements deep below the surface.

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I need help.
The article describes geophysical facts only and does not at all substantiate the allegation, "[entire planets] appear as living super-organisms".
If there were a good reason to call the earth a "living super-organism", my carpet (with all the dust and danders and cat hairs and dust mites and mildews in its microclimate) would be a (smaller) "living super-organism", too. For now, I reject this terminology as biologically absurd.