Bioorganism

Mr. Hawkes' last statement may be true for relatively small mercury-water systems but extrapolate a bit and place one "intelligent bioorganism exhaling carbon dioxide" (presumably human) in a closed room with a fan blowing recirculating air over the surface of a 500 ft² tank of mercury covered with a foot of water.

Larger and more powerful regional and global nodes could inherit the attributes of this base node, thus enabling the growth of a Global Infosphere in a way quite analogous to the growth of a bioorganism.

A second mechanism involves the active participation of the bioorganism.