Are We Ready to Encounter Another Intelligence—or to Stop Considering Humanity the Measure of the Universe?
1. The deepest question is not whether other intelligences exist If tomorrow we received an unmistakable message from another civilization in the Universe, what would be our first reaction? Excitement? Fear? Curiosity? Or perhaps a profound, almost imperceptible disturbance, because one of the most persistent assumptions of human civilization would have just collapsed: the assumption … Περισσότερα