Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980spfl...22..338c&link_type=abstract
Spaceflight, vol. 22, Nov.-Dec. 1980, p. 338, 339.
Mathematics
Logic
Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Human Beings, Project Seti, Biological Evolution, Cognition, Perception
Scientific paper
Implications of current understandings of the nature of human intelligence for the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence are discussed. The perceptual theory of intelligence as the manipulation of perceptual images rather than language is introduced, and conditions leading to the ascendancy of man over other hominids with similar conceptual abilities are discussed, including the liberation of the hands from a locomotive function and the evolution of neoteny. It is argued that the specificity of the environmental, behavioral and physiological conditions which lead to the emergence of technologically oriented, and communicative intelligent creatures suggests that any SETI would most likely be fruitless.
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