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title	A Darker Forest? : The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Spiritual Life
book title	Astrophilosophy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion : Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe
series title	Contemporary Whitehead Studies
author	Faber, Roland
authority control	Roland Faber
editor	Davis, Andrew M. and Faber, Roland
year	2024
publisher	Rowman & Littlefield
place published	Lanham, MD
ISBN	9781666944365 166694436X
abstract	This book examines the process philosophies of Whitehead and others against current discussions of astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, and their engagement by theological and religious systems. In chapter 15, “A Darker Forest? The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Spiritual Beings,” Roland Faber discusses various layers, assumptions, and implications of the “Dark Forest” hypothesis as one the more fascinating solutions to the Fermi paradox. The Dark Forest hypothesis states that the universe is not only biotic (ETL), but full of intelligent life (ETI). However, since the probability that the encounter of ETIs will lead to mutual destruction rather than cooperation is “astronomical,” everyone hides as though behind a tree in a dark forest, with any contact passively or actively leading to the eradication of the communicator. Is the Earth thus doomed? Faber argues that this conjecture is based on an assumption that evolution is locked, in Darwinian terms, in the survival of the fittest, and that even cooperation, as on Earth, is, if not the exception, merely a means for self-survival and promotion. However, in a detailed analysis, Faber shows how the philosophical resources found in Teilhard, Whitehead, and 'Abdu’l-Baha, specifically their religious intuitions and desires concerning the function of cosmic religiosity in the universe, can actually counter this dismal assumption. The question for Faber then becomes: How does the Fermi paradox impact not only their acceptance that life is ubiquitous (ETL) and suggestive of the appearance of intelligent life-forms (ETI) in our universe, but also support the claim that evolution tends to foster the emergence of spiritual life-forms (ETS) that might overcome this biotic, evolutionary condition of self-assertion, competition, and expansion? In layout of several propositions, and the various possibilities at play, Faber answers the Dark Forest hypothesis and the Fermi paradox from the perspective of the assumption of extraterrestrial spiritual life (ETS) and the Great Spiritual Barrier for star-faring civilizations. For Faber, humanity is the test subject whose open future may or may not further the emergence of the cosmic spirit of life
notes	LCCN 2023051304. Astrobiology, Exo-Philosophy, and Cosmic Religion (Conference) (2022 : Salem, Or.), edited by Andrew M. Davis and Roland Faber. illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. Process Philosophy and Extraterrestrial Life: Past, Present, and Future / Andrew M. Davis -- Astrophilosophy -- Prospects for a Universal Philosophy of Organism: Some Initial Reflections / Derek Malone-France -- The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis / Matthew David Segall and Bruce Damer -- The Organic Universe and Otherworldly Lives: Bergson and Sagan / Wahida Khandker -- The Connection-Action Principle: A Basis for Process Philosophy, Cosmic Creativity, and Value? / Mark Lupisella -- Astrobiological Searches for Life and Shared Knowledge / Chelsea Haramia -- Exotheology -- Evolution Connected to Theory of Value by Process-Relational Astrotheology and Cosmotheology / Theodore Walker Jr. -- Astrobiology, Astrotheology, and Cosmic Consciousness / Ted Peters -- Astrobiology, Cosmotheology, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology / Steven J. Dick -- From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology / Andrew M. Davis -- Cosmic Religion -- Religious Belief and the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: What's Worldview Got to Do with It? / Constance M. Bertka -- "Worlds as Numerous as the Grains of Sand of the Ganges": Cosmic Pluralism and Swami Vivekananda's Religion of the Future / Jeffery D. Long -- Multiplicity without Tyranny: The Nonviolent Aim in Jainism and Whitehead's Process Metaphysics / Brianne Donaldson -- Extending the Noosphere into Intergalactic Life: Teilhard de Chardin and the Third Axial Age / Ilia Delio -- Astrobiology without Biology: Will AI be Our Emissary or Our Bottleneck? / Noreen Herzfeld -- A Darker Forest? The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Spiritual Life / Roland Faber -- Epilogue. Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life (1968) / Lewis S. Ford.
language	English
keywords	EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE; PROCESS; PHILOSOPHY; 'ABDU'L-BAHA; WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH; TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, PIERRE; DARK FOREST HYPOTHESIS
chapter	15
pages	455–519
section	10.
call number	BL254 .A87 2022 113
accession number	ocn1412503416

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