From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2008 - 12:04:59 PDT
Against the Empire
Authors: Milan M. Cirkovic
(Submitted on 13 May 2008)
Abstract: It is argued that the “generic” evolutionary pathway of advanced
technological civilizations are more likely to be optimization-driven than
expansion-driven, in contrast to the prevailing opinions and attitudes in
both future studies on one side and astrobiology/SETI studies on the other.
Two toy-models of postbiological evolution of advanced technological
civilizations are considered and several arguments supporting the
optimization-driven, spatially compact model are briefly discussed.
In addition, it is pointed out that there is a subtle contradiction in most
of the tech-optimist and transhumanist accounts of future human/alien
civilizations’ motivations in its postbiological stages. This may have
important ramifications for both practical SETI projects and the future (of
humanity) studies.
Comments: 17 pages, no figures, accepted in JBIS
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:0805.1821v1 [astro-ph]
Submission history
From: Milan M. Cirkovic [view email]
[v1] Tue, 13 May 2008 10:52:19 GMT (136kb)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1821
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