Old Neighbors, New Neighbors: Terrestrial Nonhuman Persons and SETI
This paper questions the trend in astroethics to posit extraterrestrial life as clearly sapient or nonsapient by evaluating human interactions with one species of terrestrial nonhuman sapients, orcas. The author establishes a noncomprehensive set of criteria for sapience, then demonstrates the ways...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2021
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Theology and science
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 422-433 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Seti
B Sapience B orcas B predictive models B Personhood |
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| Summary: | This paper questions the trend in astroethics to posit extraterrestrial life as clearly sapient or nonsapient by evaluating human interactions with one species of terrestrial nonhuman sapients, orcas. The author establishes a noncomprehensive set of criteria for sapience, then demonstrates the ways in which orcas meet or surpass said criteria. Potential interactions at individual and societal levels are examined to establish current patterns of interaction between humans and one nonhuman sapient species. From here the author extrapolates potential interactions between human explorers and extraterrestrial sapients which might not be readily apparent as such to human paradigms of sapience or culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2021.1982253 |