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* 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 ... | * 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 ... | ||
* 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). | * 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). | ||
* Communications are therefore necessarily passive and unconscious prior to first contact or what would properly be called first realization of contact. | * Communications are therefore necessarily passive and unconscious prior to first contact or what would properly be called first realization of contact. This is the resolution of the apparent paradox. | ||
* 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 individuals 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. | * 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 individuals 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. | ||
* The language developed is species specific but is hypothetically already a (future) dialect of the cosmopolitan interlingua. Normally local cultures would be consciously constructing it with this in mind as well as the unification of their various primitive and mutually unintelligible pre-contact langs. | * The language developed is species specific but is hypothetically already a (future) dialect of the cosmopolitan interlingua. Normally local cultures would be consciously constructing it with this in mind as well as the unification of their various primitive and mutually unintelligible pre-contact langs. | ||
