Self-reflective Embodiment of Transdisciplinary Integration (SETI)
Year:
2008 The universal criterion of species maturity? (Part #1)
Introduction
Mirror self-recognition and environmental mirroring
SETI: a "universal" criterion for species maturity?
Dimensions of a "SETI" criterion?
Lexical category trap
"Universal" indication of indication?
Multidimensional indication through transcendence of "pointing"?
Experiential dimension
Cultural clues to SETI comprehension
"UFOs"?
Contact with extraterrestrials?
Cognitive challenge: resolving the problematique
"Torturing the Sphinx": Militarized intelligence vs Sustainable quality of livelihood
"Terrestrial extras"?
SETI: Shadowy Extreme of Transformative Implication?
Conclusions
References
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Introduction
This is a brief reflection on possible evolution in understanding of species and cultural maturity. The focus is on how criteria for such maturity may differ from those commonly associated with measures of the "intelligence quotient" or from the many understandings of human development and psychological integration. Profiling the latter was a responsibility of the author in relation to the Human Development Project of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential.
The concern here is to frame any such understanding within a possible "universal" understanding of maturity by extraterrestrial species and cultures -- perhaps throughout the universe.
