Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence

Regis Jr., Edward

ISBN 10: 0521262275 / ISBN 13: 9780521262279

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987

About this Item

Edited by Edward Regis Jr. Very Good. Glossy boards, faintly bumped. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the edges, clean internally. An anthology whose purpose is to "present in an easily accessible form the best and most recent original thought" about UFOs and unexplained phenomena "from some of the most distinguished scientists and philosophers of our generation." From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.

Seller Inventory # 12729

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521262275
• ISBN 13: 9780521262279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • New Age, UFOs, and Conspiracies

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Synopsis

With current interest in extraterrestrials at a peak, this book is a collection of original and reprinted articles advancing the latest scientific ideas as to the possible existence and nature of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Usually this subject is treated only in popular media, such as science fiction novels, movies, and television. Recently, however, scientists and researchers have begun to consider in earnest whether extraterrestrials really exist, whether they have evolved from simpler forms of life, whether they have evolved intelligence, and if so whether their modes of understanding the world are comparable to and congruent with our own. The contributors to this volume cover these topics, and also consider how we might communicate with aliens, and whether we would be able to understand the alien messages we might receive. Finally the authors, who include distinguished scientists, speculate whether the aliens might have a moral code, and what might be our moral obligations in the event any extraterrestrials were ever discovered.