What We Know About Extraterrestrial Intelligence : Foundations of Xenology Paperback / softback
by Michael Ashkenazi
Part of the Space and Society series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:430 pages, XVIII, 430 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:15/06/2018
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- ISBN:9783319830575
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:430 pages, XVIII, 430 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:15/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319830575
