Breakthrough discussion relating to SETI
It is 5 videos here. The concepts..These are video excerpts of the recent Breakthrough symposium in connection with Project SETI (Search for Extra Terrestial Intelligence). As human technology has advanced since the 1960s, so too has the way the SETI program works.
Lineage of a bio-sphere. Looking in directions SETI hasn't done yet. Atmospheric traces of molecules produced by the manufacture of plastics for instance. Organic life vs inorganic life. Would we recognize life? How long does a civilization last? What is life? Do we truly want to create a self aware AI and droids to do our exploring for us? Do true AIs go through the Darwinian process and evolve away from the original design? Is the Darwinian process unique to Earth? How unique is Earth's bio-sphere? Are there other similar bio-spheres on other Earth like worlds or are their chemical processes unique to that world? The more extensive and expansion our search for other life in the Universe becomes, the more noticeable we become to other life searching. Is that a good thing? Etc.
1 Stephen Hawking in a presentation made for this summit, shortly before he passed on.
2 Martin Reese discusses the odds of SETI detecting organic or electronis intelligence?
3 What is life?
4 Inorganic life. Complex molecules are techno signatures..
5 Evolutionary traces in nonorganic computer programs (i.e., Artificial Intelligence programs) in response to changes in environment.
Question to ponder.. If we design self aware AI robot droids to do space exploration for us and build structures for us, then send them off into deep space, for how long will a self aware robot droid happily work for us, versus seek an independence from us and come up with a way of accomplishing that new goal?
Comments (6)
...this was youre question to ponder...?
we can waste billions of dollars trying somthing stupid like making some cind of life-form that might start up on its own, or even worse, come back and bite us in the arss...?
...well, were only human, so I guess this is logical ...?
-what fun will there be, if we have to stop reproduce in the future, if we all are gonna live forever...?
...because, we would still want to eat... .and I doubth you were serious about eating eatchother?
...stupid waste of money...enough problems to be solved just to survive a "normal" lifetime here on earth allready...
No one spends a dime in those videos. Uncle Darwin will decide if the human race needs to go on. There is discussion of that in the videos, but in any case a million years or two down the road we will not be the end product of this world. You whine about plastic, but face it, in the grand scheme of things whether or not humanity can survive in a plasticized bio sphere is not terrible important as long as something learns how to.