Week 7
Intelligent Extraterrestrials?
Most physicists think it is better to be smart than stupid. If they are correct, we should expect aliens with technological intelligence. But if so, where is everybody? Most biologists are not convinced that human-like intelligence is a convergent feature of evolution. Paleontology supports the biologists.
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11:36
7.1.1 The Great Intelligence Debate
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09:12
7.1.2 Human Exceptionalism and the Ladder of Life
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16:38
7.1.3 Planet of the Apes Fallacy
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07:53
7.1.4 Rerunning the Tape of Life
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17:56
7.1.5 Convergence vs Deep Homology
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06:50
7.2.1 Is the Universe Without Life a Waste of Space?
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06:51
7.2.2 What Kind of Alien Would You Like to Meet?
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03:01
7.2.3 Have you Ever Seen a UFO?
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07:37
7.2.4 I have seen a UFO
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07:12
7.2.5 Fermi Paradox
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03:26
7.2.6 Are We Alone?
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16:15
7.3.1 Should We Expect ETs to Have Human-like Intelligence?
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06:54
7.4.1 Seth Shostak: radio astronomer
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06:52
7.4.2 Jerry Ostriker: astrophysicist
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07:52
7.4.3 William Bains: biochemist
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09:46
7.4.4 William Bains sings about Astrobiology
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06:53
7.4.5 Robin Hansen: economist
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19:33
7.5.1 Student Discussion
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01:20
7.5.2 What Aliens Might Exist?
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10:24
Is Intelligence the Inevitable Outcome of Evolution?
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13:19
Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb
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10:43
Frank Drake - Where are All Those Aliens?
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51:38
Why Have We Not Found Any Aliens? - with Keith Cooper
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50:48
What Happens If We’re Contacted By Aliens?
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0:59
A Message from Frank Drake
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07:29
Simon Conway Morris - Human Uniqueness
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01:28:42
1995 | In the Company of Animals conference, Keynote Address by Stephen Jay Gould | The New School
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01:20:21
A Glorious Accident (6 of 7) Stephen Jay Gould: The Unanswerable
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42:43
Stephen Jay Gould: DARWINISM NOW. The Royal Institution, 1994
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01:36:01
Carl Sagan's 1994 "Lost" Lecture: The Age of Exploration
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16:23
Studio 2: Carl Sagan
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01:21:05
The Story of Life: Critical Insights from Evolutionary Biology
by Simon Conway Morris, 2004, Cambridge University Press
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen J. Gould, 1990, Norton, New York
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
by Stephen J. Gould, 2002, Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Paleontological Tests: Human-like Intelligence is not a Convergent Feature of Evolution
Charles H. Lineweaver, 2009, From Fossils to Astrobiology. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht (DOI:978-1-4020-8837-7_17 | arXiv)