Memory AliensVersion en ligne Description par Alexis Lopez “The irreducible gulf is striking precisely because of the other ways in which they do resemble us.” “If some kind of Borg-esque hive consciousness is actually better-suited to making the breakthroughs necessary to navigate the interstellar deep…” “The potential unfathomability of an alien intelligence.” “What effective proof of alien life without actual first contact might mean.” “Human culture can be jolted by unexpected encounters with a novel culture.” “Everything that rises must converge.” “The core human experience of consciousness… seems extremely well-adapted to getting from planetary evolution to galactic exploration.” “How could it not subject everything we believe to question?” “The sudden arrival of extraterrestrials as the consummation of a modernity that might otherwise be fated to stagnation and decay.” “The irreducible gulf is striking precisely because of the other ways in which they do resemble us.” “Humans have practiced both cannibalism and ritual child murder in our own complex past.” “That’s what science fiction is really doing when it conjures up intelligent alien species… it’s about us, not them.” “Even with something as horrifying as Gowachin cannibalism, a similarity in consciousness would be enough to eventually build a bridge.” “How could it not subject everything we believe to question?” “The differences among intelligent species could still be a difference of degree and not of kind.” “I left behind merely human answers to global decadence and contemplated more exotic and transcendent and alien possibilities.” “Nothing in all our science fictions have prepared us for how an intelligent non-human civilization or culture would present itself to us.” “Even with something as horrifying as Gowachin cannibalism, a similarity in consciousness would be enough to eventually build a bridge.” “I left behind merely human answers to global decadence and contemplated more exotic and transcendent and alien possibilities.” “Everything that rises must converge.” “Human culture can be jolted by unexpected encounters with a novel culture.” “Real aliens won’t be like that. They won’t be about us.” “Most likely, aliens — even intelligent aliens — will be largely incomprehensible to us.” “The potential unfathomability of an alien intelligence.” “Humans have practiced both cannibalism and ritual child murder in our own complex past.” “The sudden arrival of extraterrestrials as the consummation of a modernity that might otherwise be fated to stagnation and decay.” “Maybe the human race isn’t simply waiting for an encounter… in a certain kind of paranormal experience we’ve been living with them all along.” “If some kind of Borg-esque hive consciousness is actually better-suited to making the breakthroughs necessary to navigate the interstellar deep…” “When we stretch our minds to imagine what it might be like to be different from ourselves… we carry ourselves with us on that empathetic journey.” “The differences among intelligent species could still be a difference of degree and not of kind.” “Real aliens won’t be like that. They won’t be about us.” “Most likely, aliens — even intelligent aliens — will be largely incomprehensible to us.” “What effective proof of alien life without actual first contact might mean.” “When we stretch our minds to imagine what it might be like to be different from ourselves… we carry ourselves with us on that empathetic journey.” “That’s what science fiction is really doing when it conjures up intelligent alien species… it’s about us, not them.” “Maybe the human race isn’t simply waiting for an encounter… in a certain kind of paranormal experience we’ve been living with them all along.” “Nothing in all our science fictions have prepared us for how an intelligent non-human civilization or culture would present itself to us.” “Whether the revelation would be easily enfolded into late-modern normalcy.” “The core human experience of consciousness… seems extremely well-adapted to getting from planetary evolution to galactic exploration.” “Whether the revelation would be easily enfolded into late-modern normalcy.”