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Advanced civilizations could be indistinguishable from nature
- The Fermi Paradox, the contradiction between what seems to be a high probability of extraterrestrial life and the total lack of evidence that it exists, has been examined from different angles.
- Researcher Lukáš Likavčan has re-examined the assumptions underpinning the paradox, arguing that the sustainability solution offers direct implications for how we can think about viable inhabitation of the earth.
- The sustainability solution states that we don’t see any evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence because rapid growth is not a sustainable development pattern
- Likavčan elaborates on the solution by re-thinking three underlying concepts: technospheres, planetary history, and sustainability.
- Haqq-Misra and Baum’s sustainability solution posits that exponential growth is not sustainable, which means that no civilisation will ever use all available energy from its planet, star, or galaxy.
- The “grass of the Universe” metaphor recognises the potential existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, which could potentially unfold throughout the cosmos in many permutations, conditioned by the setting of given star system and the inhabited exoplanet(s).
- A technosphere is only sustainable when it expands or strengthens a planet’s genesity.
- From that perspective, the only successful technosphere is one that folds back into the biosphere, making it very difficult, even impossible, to detect.
- It’s important to sometimes examine our underlying assumptions in order to further our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
- We need to rethink our assumptions about our planetary history and have more understanding into planetary histories to ascertain what parts of ours might be more generic and what parts do not reflect other planets with biospheres at all.
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