Rethinking Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Challenge to Humanoid Biases

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Understanding life beyond Earth should be built on an interdisciplinary, humility‑driven approach that blends astronomy with psychology, sociology, and anthropology to challenge Western biases, recognize that alien minds could be very different, and learn from long‑term, culturally embedded practices like Mayan astronomy that show deep insight can come without cutting‑edge tech, so any contact would require careful interpretation of minds, cultures, and meanings rather than just gadgets.