Ten problems with searching for life on other planets (African perspectives may see a resurgence)

[David Agogo]

1. life is defined as carbon based primarily

2. we don't understand our origins well enough to generalize (Plato's allegory of the cave)

3. Outside of theistic considerations, not integrated on modern astronomy, there is no cause to search for extra terrestrial consciousness. 

4. Our pinhole view of the universe leaves us spectrum-bound, scale-limited and mind-lessly reductionist. 

5. We assume afferent extra terrestrial life will seek corporate rather than individual partnerships on earth

6. We project our own desires for discovering life on the extra terrestrial mind and life forms 

7. We neglect the 'earth mind' perspective e.g. Gaia which is probably the first level of interaction between earth and extra terrestrial life

8. Everything about how we plan and prepare to interact with life from outside earth is sense, sensory or sensor based, limiting points of approach. 

9. We are incapable and disinterested in time unbound communication with extra terrestrial life, which will limit full understanding of any time bound communication we decode. 

10. We assume extra terrestrial life wants to be or can be found on terms other than theirs and with instruments other than those of their own atmospheric realities. "The Earth's beak problem" 

https://youtu.be/szCNYJfjKgQ

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[David Agogo]

University of St Andrews announced last week a new center for planning cross national responses to success or similar development in the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, updating decades old protocol. https://www.cnet.com/science/space/seti-scientists-developing-new-contact-protocols-for-aliens/

The US intelligence forces had to brief Congress earlier this year after sixty years on unidentified aerial phenomena. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/ufo-briefings-congress-pentagon-00029315

 Humans have been poking around in space and deploying space junk at insane levels. https://astronomy.com/news/2022/10/what-is-space-debris-and-why-is-it-a-problem

 Elon musk has been launching low orbit satellites without any sense of self control. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/1/7/21003272/space-x-starlink-astronomy-light-pollution

 Omuamua was an interstellar visitor whose orbit paths were completely unexpected. Scientists want to intercept the next interstellar visitor, which sounds like the first scene of a dystopic end of the world movie. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnbmz/we-need-to-intercept-our-next-interstellar-visitor-to-see-if-its-artificial-astronomers-say-in-new-study

 There's alot going on in outer space. 

This is the point where we remember our ancestors in Africa knew a lot more about these things  than we do today. https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/09/24/african-astronomy-the-african-universe-documentary/8258879002/

Ancient African wisdom about the cosmos may well be coming full circle, but it needs some updating to the scientific language of the times. Young scholars and the curious African futurists need the older generation to draw connections to the knowledge of our village elders without compromising our knowledge to profit crazed capitalists. Who do we look to for leadership on these issues? The ball is in the older generation's court, as it has always been. 

Dr Agogo

The Panafuturist

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