John S, list, And I think it's significant in the context of the several recent threads that Peirce was one of the first scientists to imagine that there had to be a cosmos beyond the Milky Way, our own galaxy.
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 8:12 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/16/2018 5:43 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: > >> So, at very least, the jury is still out on this question. >> > > I certainly agree. Ray K's predictions about AI have usually > been unreliable or just wrong. > > The inverse square law implies that the energy of electromagnetic > radiation falls off very rapidly *unless* the transmission is beamed > directly at some intended target. > > The absence of any evidence of alien civilizations could just mean > that nobody in our region of the Milky Way noticed, or nobody beamed > any info at us, or that nobody on earth was listening if and when > somebody did send a message our way. > > The likelihood that any civilization in another galaxy could have > noticed our planet is vanishingly small. If they had detected > our planet, they must have detected billions of others that were > closer or more interesting to them. And if they had beamed a > message our way, it's certain that we never beamed a response > to them, and they probably gave up. > > John > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] 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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