From CETI to METI: The History and Debates of Extraterrestrial Communication

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Efforts to contact alien minds span from geometric and mathematical signals to symbolic languages, with thinkers like Minsky, Arbib, and Chiang debating whether alien cognition would resemble human intelligence or be fundamentally different and warning that signals may be missed if they don’t fit familiar patterns.

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Extraterrestrial Languages

Daniel Oberhaus is a science and technology journalist who specializes in space travel and the future of energy. Currently staff writer for Wired, he recently wrote the introduction for da Silva, Burleigh and Obraczkahis’ academic tome of hard sci-fi inspiration, Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks: Interplanetary and Earth-bound – Architecture, Protocols and Applications. His first monograph, Extraterrestrial Languages, provides an accessible overview of largely Western approaches to communicating with aliens.