Seth Shostak, the head of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, on the possibility of detecting intelligent life in the universe - Audio

I wager $1 that data betraying exobiological activity quite profoundly distinct from common expectation already exists in the planetary data system under cassini huygens mission. Whether is sentient or not is moot lol...

Hi there again Graeme. I was pondering about what you'd written and I reckon that you should not worry about being anthropic by having those same thoughts as long as you consider that any intelligent lifeform in the Universe could also have them. You could compare that to Hydrogen and the other chemical elements being ubiquitous in the Universe. The Universe objectively perceived is neither a warm caring state of being that look after your personal species' existence or a '' cold unfeeling place that just doesn't give a damn.... ''

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To be objective us humans must avoid being anthropic. Michio Kaku mentioned Fermi's Paradox in the Larry King's CNN debate that included Seth Shostak, following the first transmission of Steven Hawking's ''Into the Universe.'' Fermi's Paradox seems to infer that in the short period that humans have been able to transmit data using technology and the scant interstellar distances these transmissions have covered, we ought to have made alien contact if such alien life exists that could detect those same transmissions. Fermi's Paradox is an allegorical misnomer because it is subjectively geocentric therefore anthropocentrically narcissistic.

Yes, I've had the same thought, but am apprehensive that it is a rather anthropic "we are special" point of view, when the universe has proven to be a rather cold unfeeling place that just doesn't give a damn.... but I get your point.

Cheers.

Graeme

Graeme

I always rationalised that the meaning of life is that life is the vessel the Universe uses, in an evolutionary sense, for being self aware. A life form is part of the Universe so life is that same Universe aware of itself. At the beginning of an evolutionary tree wherever life has independently occured, the Universe would be unconsciously aware of itself until it evolved conscious intelligence.

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