Titlebook: Space, Time, and Aliens; Collected Works on C Steven J. Dick Book 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 history of astronomy.philosophy

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Cosmic Evolution: History, Culture, and Human Destiny dates back only to the nineteenth century, and became a guiding principle for astronomical research only in the second half of the twentieth century. The modern synthesis in evolutionary biology hastened the acceptance of the idea in its cosmic setting, as did the confirmation of the Big Bang theor

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Consequences of Success in SETI: Lessons from the History of ScienceIt is argued that the history of science offers deeper insights than political history or anthropology, since the contact would be intellectual and not physical. Specific cases of the transmission of knowledge across terrestrial cultures, and of the reception of scientific worldviews, are offered as

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Bringing Culture to Cosmos: Cultural Evolution, the Postbiological Universe, and SETId the chances of life beyond Earth during the twentieth century. Here I propose another option—that we may in fact live in a postbiological universe, one that has evolved beyond flesh and blood intelligence to artificial intelligence (AI) and that is a product of cultural rather than biological evol

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Should We Message ET, and Is an Asilomar Consultation Process Possible?sons. In this paper we begin by laying out some of more serious issues that METI raises. We present a brief history of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) and the controversy surrounding it, not only by way of background but also because it is important that we not reinvent the wheel when

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Astrobiology and Society: An Overview at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Centurythe existence of life beyond Earth, and the future of life on Earth and beyond, the scope of that deceptively simple question becomes clear. It embraces not only the religious, ethical, legal, and cultural concerns inherent in those subjects, but also the meaning of life and even human destiny in a