The Voyager Golden Record is an abstract of humanity. Are those really the key
facts about humanity? What do we want to tell aliens about us? Are cable TV,
internet memes and Starbucks coffee not a better abstract of our (yes, rich and
privileged Western) culture (and their counterparts in
Forget the aliens. If you read Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem, you don't
want to communicate with them.
On 2018-01-12 12:19, Sean Cubitt wrote:
> would it be more useful/interesting to establish communication with
> planet Earth? “If a lion would speak, we would not be able to
> understand it”
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> Subject: Re: Speculative Intergalactic Network
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Keith - you beat me to it --
There is much room for expanding ones communicative system in the immediate
surrounds of this very planet -- there is an abundance of communicative energy
flows all around us. Most of these we are -- by choice and by social convention
-- completely ignoring. Yet
As a thought experiment, consider why we can't communicate with the ants
or vice versa. Their social organization is stronger than ours and their
collective intelligence is demonstrable. It may be that one side is more
primitive than the other. But which?
Kant held that reason is still largely
> It would probably not be called internet, require a better
> understanding and use of our "other senses and sensors".
> Maybe it exists and we dumbs don't perceive it... or we don't know that
> certain waves effects are signs of it... or we produce too much
> electromagnetic pollution to be able
I very much like the idea of a communication network expanded to aliens
(us included) and the question of imperialistic subordination of ones by
others. It would probably not be called internet, require a better
understanding and use of our "other senses and sensors".
Maybe it exists and we dumbs
Let’s assume (so called intelligent) aliens would exist. What do you think: How
would communication work with those aliens? How would it change the Internet if
we expanded it to different planets? I’ve been wondering if hierarchical
structures between the new lifeforms and us humans would occur
