BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Stephen, Gary R, list Since the Universe is an evolving articulation of Mind-as-Matter, then, I would suggest that the likelihood of intelligent, or conscious, life elsewhere has to be about 100%.
Edwina On Wed 16/05/18 5:43 PM , Gary Richmond gary.richm...@gmail.com sent: 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 [1] 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 [2] So, at very least, the jury is still out on this question. Best, Gary Gary RichmondPhilosophy and Critical ThinkingCommunication StudiesLaGuardia College of the City University of New York 718 482-5690 On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Stephen C. Rose 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 [4] amazon.com/author/stephenrose [5] ----------------------------- 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 [6] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu [7] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/ [8]peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . Links: ------ [1] https://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3775 [2] http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/is-there-intelligent-life-in-the-universe [3] http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'stever...@gmail.com\',\'\',\'\',\'\') [4] https://youtu.be/cBVUdEQXvmc [5] http://amazon.com/author/stephenrose [6] http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'peirce-L@list.iupui.edu\',\'\',\'\',\'\') [7] http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'l...@list.iupui.edu\',\'\',\'\',\'\') [8] http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm
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