Communicating with Aliens: the Psychological Dimension of Dialogue
- / - Introduction Part I: Test challenges for alien counter Part II: Strategic clues for alien communication Part III: Distinguishing patterns of assumption in dialogue with aliens Part IV: Designing a team for alien encounter References Introduction Most of the academic initiatives to reflect on the challenge of communicating with extraterrestrials seem to focus on the technical problems of receiving a signal from them, or sending a signal to them. These questions are extensively explored in the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) literature and even in the lesser-known CETI variant, namely Communicating with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Such preoccupations then extend into the challenge of teaching aliens a language through which communication can be developed. This paper is concerned with the psycho-social issues of communicating with extraterrestrials intelligently -- other than by making assumptions about the universality of coding based on prime number theory a...