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Wide Cultural Communications in Interstellar Messages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Paulo. Musso
Paulo. Musso*
Affiliation:
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Piazza Sant'Apollinare, Roma

Abstract

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The idea of communicating cultural concepts in a SETI message, suggesting that analogy may be a useful tool, is developed in this paper in a systematic way, aiming at the construction of an effective message with wide cultural content. Here, I discuss both materials and methods in relation to three questions. Firstly, which of the main concepts of our culture are likely to be communicated in this way? Secondly, is the conceptual cluster (Dutil, 2004) sufficient as a basis to apply the analogical methodology or should it be extended further? And lastly, what is the possible contribution of the different kinds of logic (i.e. classical, mathematical, fuzzy and so on) and which are their relationships (if any) with analogy?

Type
Post SETI
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 511 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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