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:''N'' = 7 × 0.5 × 2 × 0.33 × 0.01 × 0.01 × 1,000,000 = 231. | :''N'' = 7 × 0.5 × 2 × 0.33 × 0.01 × 0.01 × 1,000,000 = 231. | ||
and with a 10<sup>6</sup> count for the factor to generalize from the home galaxy, a total of roughly a 100 million worlds since I presume | and with a 10<sup>6</sup> count for the factor to generalize from the home galaxy, a total of roughly a 100 million worlds since I presume that post-singularity, intergalactic distances are not, for the purposes of communication alone, significantly different from interstellar distances. | ||
that post-singularity, intergalactic distances are not, for the purposes of communication alone, significantly different from interstellar | |||
distances. | |||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
* Next, a branch must be made for whether or not ET has already a terrestrial presence which I assume negatively but I don't assume that | * Next, a branch must be made for whether or not ET has already a terrestrial presence which I assume negatively but I don't assume that communications haven't been ongoing or that local material evolution might not have been shaped and the later in particular with fine tuning as required by ... | ||
communications haven't been ongoing or that local material evolution might not have been shaped and the later in particular with fine tuning | * The METI issue is of a piece with the unification of language on a world such as the Earth, communication with the cosmopolitan culture, and the means by which this occurs, assumed to be direct mental connection between species capable of at least transcieving via individuals selected and/or selectively bred for this purpose (the explanation for the development of the language faculty generally). | ||
as required by ... | * Communications are therefore necessarily passive and unconscious prior to first contact or what would properly be called first realization of contact. | ||
* The METI issue is of a piece with the unification of language on a world such as the Earth, communication with the cosmopolitan culture, | * The point at which a local culture becomes aware of the cosmopolitan culture is associated with the serendipitous event of the realization by one or more individual followed by the social construction of a language by which general communications can take place. The singularity or omega point of cultural development is associated with this event which of course is more of a process, except for whatever event makes it a reality in the consciousness of a local culture. | ||
and the means by which this occurs, assumed to be direct mental connection between species capable of at least transcieving via | |||
selected and | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
