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Messaging morality: ethics across the cosmos

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
dc.contributor.authorUnidentified speaker
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:53:45Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:53:45Z
dc.date.issued2014
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dc.description.abstractRolston lecture at a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) workshop, February 14, 2015, Mountain View, California. When we consider active SETI, or METI, transmitting messages that might be received by extraterrestrial intelligence, what might we say about human morality? We can ask what ethics, if any, is an inclusive global ethics. Consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Messages will more likely be understood if kept short and basic. Seek peace! Be fair! Tell the truth! Keep promises! Some, such as the Golden Rule, might be pictured. Dimensions of human ethics are Earthbound: Be sustainable! Do not commit adultery! But, like basic laws of science, deeper principles will be shared with extraterrestrials. Human ethics has been socially constructed across cultural histories, originating with prophets, seers, saviors, but, again like science which has a history, our more fundamental moral insights, if not true in all possible worlds, are true elsewhere in our universe. Taking a longer view, considering transit millennia, we should transmit truths that are both profound and permanently true.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/89538
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectsocially constructed ethics
dc.subjectglobal ethics
dc.subjectuniversal ethics
dc.subjectsearch for extraterrestrial intelligence
dc.subjectSETI
dc.subjectethics
dc.subjectMETI
dc.subjectmessaging extraterrestrial intelligence
dc.subjectearthbound ethics
dc.titleMessaging morality: ethics across the cosmos
dc.title.alternativeEthics accross the cosmos: messaging morality
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