Surmising cognitive universals for extraterrestrial intelligences

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Jan 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997abos.conf..561n&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe, IAU Colloquium 161, Publisher: B

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Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Cognition, Biological Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, Universe, Mathematical Models

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Cognitive universals are concepts that our civilization and technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations can easily interpret. The universality of certain mathematically and perceptually based concepts are discussed. It is argued that continuously based concepts are more fertile ground for surmising cognitive universals than discretely based ones, and in particular, one should be suspicious of the use of inductively based numerical concepts, including the totality of natural numbers. Ideas about intuitive evolutionary theory, physical and perceptual invariance, and the efficient processing of information are linked to provide a framework for searching for cognitive universals.

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