141. The Possibilities Of FTL: Or Fermi's Paradox Reconsidered Discusses some of the logic behind arguments for and against humans being alone in the universe. http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~fritx/Ftlessay/essay.html

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144. A Wild Hypothesis Essay on the development of civilizations. http://www.stampe.nu/wild/

A wild hypothesis As I was writing my master thesis in political science I could not stop thinking about the implications of one of the theories I was formulating, namely the one concerning critical phases in the development of civilisations. In short my theory suggests that every civilisation, which exceeds a given limit in terms of instrumental influence on its planet's ecosystems and in terms of mass destruction capacity, enters into a critical phase. During this phase it will be decided whether the civilisation dies or whether it manages to transcend its original form and become truly universal. In the essay I argued that humanity right now experiences such a critical phase in its history. But as this was an academic essay and not one of my personal speculations I did not pursue a particular line of thought. As the telescopes and the stars might already have given away I was thinking about the possibility that this theory was not only applicable to human history but rather to all sentient species that might exist in the vastness of space. If that is a valid assumption, the dilemmas we are currently facing in terms of a worsening ecological crises and the development of weapons of mass destruction, may in fact be a self-imposed test of our maturity as a species. If we are to endure this phase (or test) we must develop entirely new ways to interact socially. Ways which will demand the greatest of all of us. To put it simple, we must leave our infancy of war, economic oppression and social alienation. Let us now assume that others have walked down this path ahead of us. Let us further assume that they are aware of our current misery. Yet they have very good reasons not to intervene. Because if we can not prove to be capable of wisely wielding the technological and instrumental power we now possess, how could we possibly be trusted with the technology of a civilisation that has endured for thousands of millennia?

145. Some Endeavours At Synthesising A Solution To The Sorites. An introductory survey by Shawn Raylston. http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol3/sorites.html

SOME ENDEAVOURS AT SYNTHESISING A SOLUTION TO THE SORITES Shane Ralston ‘Puzzles’, ‘word games’, ‘logical anomalies’, whatever we call them, they perplex us and challenge our familiar patterns of reasoning. One of these puzzles, among many others, originated from the mind of an ancient Megarian logician, Eubulides of Miletus, and endures to the modern day. Its name, ‘sorites’, can be traced to the Greek word soros , meaning ‘heap.’ The answer to whether one grain of sand ‘is a heap’ or ‘is not a heap’ seems quite simple: it is not a heap. However, as we add grains to the one, at what future point does the non-heap become a heap? Our decision is fraught with uncertainty. Are the objects or the language we are using to describe them vague? In academic philosophy, the ancient Greek puzzle has gained the status of a paradox, as philosophers apply stoic and modern logic to these propositions considered to have vague predicates. The current debate has developed quite serious and wide-ranging implications, such as whether sorites issues provide adequate grounds for abandoning our standard ontology (or our understanding of what really exists), and (germinating into another discipline) whether vagueness in the language of legal rules can generate disagreement as to whether there are right answers to questions of law.

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