Stephen R, list, Stephen wrote: "The discussion that has touched Peirce's "anthropomorphism" is interesting in light of Ray Kurzweil's noting the unlikelihood of other human-type life in the universe"
But here's an interesting stat: "There are about 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe! The number of stars in a galaxy varies, but assuming an average of *100 billion stars* per galaxy means that there are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 1 billion trillion) stars in the observable universe!" https://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3775 And as the author notes, that is only "in the observable universe" because "We can only observe parts of the universe that are within 13.7 billion light-years of Earth." I would say rather that it's unlikely that Kurzweil is right about this. Indeed, Carl Sagan presents an entirely different picture involving not just ανθρώπου but technological civilizations. "As Carl Sagan explained the Drake equation in his series "Cosmos," the number of technological civilizations should literally number in the millions (in our galaxy alone). " http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/is-there-intelligent-life-in-the-universe So, at very least, the jury is still out on this question. Best, Gary *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *718 482-5690* On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Stephen C. Rose <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: > The discussion that has touched Peirce's "anthropomorphism" is interesting > in light of Ray Kurzweil's noting the unlikelihood of other human-type life > in the universe. https://youtu.be/cBVUdEQXvmc > > amazon.com/author/stephenrose > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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