Astrocognition: Prolegomena to a future cognitive history of exploration

Dunér, David

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“…Ever since the days of the Ancient Greek motto gn othi seauton (''know yourself''), human self-conception has been a front-andcenter topic of philosophy. (Dunér, 2011a) The Future of Astrobiology…”

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Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology

Dunér

2012

Astrobiology

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Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology

Dunér

2012

Astrobiology

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“…Communication must refer to shared entities, potentially describable for the communication partner. Cognition and perception of reality are constituted by sensory modalities [12,[102][103][104]. Some kind of coherent thinking and decision instance Executing actions.…”

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“…Furthermore, it was unpredictable that it would only take approximately two and a half million years from the hand axe to leaving our planet. Therefore, our cognitive structures are not adapted towards an extraterrestrial environment [71,91,102,109,110], and we are not used to thinking in astronomical scales [82]. This does not mean that our information processing does not work in environments like space, but our existing schemata might not be suitable there.…”

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Thinking ET : A discussion of exopsychology

Döbler,

Raab

2021

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Despite lacking scientific proof, thinking about extraterrestrials and extraterrestrial intelligence is part of our psychological reality. It is often stated that cultural and scientific reception and representation of these strange entities suffer from anthropocentric bias. To profoundly investigate such bias and the minds of extraterrestrials, we propose a revised definition for the psychological discipline called "exopsychology." We define exopsychology as a sub-discipline of psychology, which investigates the cognition, behavior, affects, and motives of extraterrestrial agents and their human-specific representation. It is argued that the concept of intelligence is not suited for application in SETI. Thus, inherent in exopsychology is the conception of extraterrestrials as higherorder cognitive agents and as strangest strangers. We discuss the possibilities and limitations of conclusions about extraterrestrials, which leads us to hypothesize that limited statements about them might be possible, even though still influenced by anthropocentrism. We argue that it is possible to utilize anthropocentric knowledge and distinguish between admissible and inadmissible anthropocentrism. Although the first contact between extraterrestrials and humanity might never occur, scientific thinking about extraterrestrials will improve our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe.

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“…Either in the form of an individual or a collective, this extremely challenging case has been occasionally discussed in biology but most especially in astro-biology. While astro-biology looks for physical signs of complex biological molecules, the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence through signals from outer space has been subject of much interest in the past few decades (Vakoch, 2011) and has led to incipient fields such as ‘astrocognition’ (see Dunér, 2011; Vakoch, 2011, ch. 31).…”

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How universal can an intelligence test be?

Dowe

Hernández-Orallo

2013

Adaptive Behavior

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The notion of a universal intelligence test has been recently advocated as a means to assess humans, non-human animals and machines in an integrated, uniform way. While the main motivation has been the development of machine intelligence tests, the mere concept of a universal test has many implications in the way human intelligence tests are understood, and their relation to other tests in comparative psychology and animal cognition. From this diversity of subjects in the natural and artificial kingdoms, the very possibility of constructing a universal test is still controversial. In this paper we rephrase the question of whether universal intelligence tests are possible or not into the question of how universal intelligence tests can be, in terms of subjects, interfaces and resolutions. We discuss the feasibility and difficulty of universal tests depending on several levels according to what is taken for granted: the communication milieu, the resolution, the reward system or the agent itself. We argue that such tests must be highly adaptive, i.e., that tasks, resolution, rewards and communication have to be adapted according to how the evaluated agent is reacting and performing. Even so, the most general expression of a universal test may not be feasible (and, at best, might only be theoretically semi-computable). Nonetheless, in general, we can analyse the universality in terms of some traits that lead to several levels of universality and set the quest for universal tests as a progressive rather than absolute goal.

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Astrocognition: Prolegomena to a future cognitive history of exploration

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology

Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology

Thinking ET : A discussion of exopsychology

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