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What We Know About Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Foundations of Xenology

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Have you ever wondered what could happen when we discover another communicating species outside the Earth? This book addresses this question in all its complexity. In addition to the physical barriers for communication, such as the enormous distances where a message can take centuries to reach its recipient, the book also examines the biological problems of communicating between species, the problems of identifying a non-Terrestrial intelligence, and the ethical, religious, legal and other problems of conducting discussions across light years.
Most of the book is concerned with issues that could impinge on your life: how do we share experiences with ETI? Can we make shared laws? Could we trade? Would they have religion? The book addresses these and related issues, identifying potential barriers to communication and suggesting ways we can overcome them. The book explores this topic through reference to human experience, through analogy and thought experiment, while relyingon what is known to-date about ourselves, our world, and the cosmos we live in.

Table des matières

Introduction and objectives.- Space in the background.- The physical parameters of ilfs.- The evolutionary parameters on ilfs.- Defining alternative modes of intelligence.- Language and symbols.- The cultural parameters of ilfs.- Et civilizations.- The classification and analysis of et civilizations and cultures.- Issues in contacting eti: when the phoenicians come trading.- Interaction and intellectual exchange.- The consequences of contact.- Conclusions: conversations with eti and the issue of culture





A propos de l'auteur

Michael Ashkenazi has been a practicing anthropologist since graduating from Yale University (PhD 1983) with a wide and eclectic range of interests. He is currently a senior researcher and project leader at the Bonn International Center for Conversion, a German independent think-tank dealing in security, peace, and development.  Before joining BICC he spent twenty years as a university lecturer, teaching under- and post-graduates in Japan, Israel, Canada, and the UK. He has written and co-edited several books. He has conducted and directed fieldwork in China, East Timor, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Japan, Liberia, Mali, and South Sudan.
Dr Ashkenazi has written extensively about subjects as diverse as Japanese food culture, religion and ritual, peace operations, small arms control, and SETI. He has been a member of the NASA Cultural Aspects of SETI multi-year workshop, and visiting researcher at NASA Ames SETI project. He has also conducted field research and published on human reactions to SETI.

Résumé

Have you ever wondered what could happen when we discover another communicating species outside the Earth? This book addresses this question in all its complexity. In addition to the physical barriers for communication, such as the enormous distances where a message can take centuries to reach its recipient, the book also examines the biological problems of communicating between species, the problems of identifying a non-Terrestrial intelligence, and the ethical, religious, legal and other problems of conducting discussions across light years.
Most of the book is concerned with issues that could impinge on your life: how do we share experiences with ETI? Can we make shared laws? Could we trade? Would they have religion? The book addresses these and related issues, identifying potential barriers to communication and suggesting ways we can overcome them. The book explores this topic through reference to human experience, through analogy and thought experiment, while relyingon what is known to-date about ourselves, our world, and the cosmos we live in.

Détails du produit

Auteurs Michael Ashkenazi
Edition Springer, Berlin
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 01.01.2018
 
EAN 9783319830575
ISBN 978-3-31-983057-5
Pages 430
Dimensions 155 mm x 24 mm x 235 mm
Poids 682 g
Illustrations XVIII, 430 p.
Thèmes Space and Society
Space and Society
Catégories Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Physique, astronomie > Astronomie

Anthropologie, B, Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Evolution, Anthropology, Angewandte Physik, astronautics, Evolutionary Biology, Physics and Astronomy, Space Physics, Space sciences, Astrobiology, Applied physics, Solar system: the Sun and planets

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