Cosmotheoros: Huygens's Probabilistic Inquiry into Life on Other Worlds
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Christiaan Huygens argues that Earth is not unique and intelligent life likely exists on other worlds in diverse forms and technologies, inferred through probabilistic reasoning and empirical astronomy, while avoiding humanoid bias and embracing non-Earth shapes such as exoskeletons, treating uncertainty as a productive engine for scientific imagination that later influenced Kant.
