…forms. Consciousness in Humans, Animals, Plants and Stars Defining consciousness is not easy. We are all rather certain of our own consciousness and relatively convinced that other humans are conscious…
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Greg Matloff: Conscious Stars Revisited
…in some sense conscious. A Toy Model of Stellar Consciousness and Astrophysical Evidence Many people have written about consciousness. Since there is no agreed upon definition of this quality, I…
The Human Adventure is Just Beginning: Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture at 40
…Trek series called simply Starship. The brief description of this series contains “a Starship operated by an enormous computer which is a lifeform itself. Each human on board is a…
Probing Parenago: A Dialogue on Stellar Discontinuity
…star type, to suggest that fast stars were cool and that these cool stars could have chemistry, allowing some sort of consciousness. The 2015 Centauri Dreams post Greg Matloff: Conscious…
Who Will Read the Encyclopedia Galactica?
…There will no longer be biospheres, and therefore no longer any complex organisms such as are dependent upon biospheres heated by stars. There will no longer be suns (i.e., stars)…
Creating Our Own Final Frontier: Part Two
…Altair and FP, there is still the possibility that the literary excerpts I present next have added their contributions to that star’s place in our collective consciousness which would eventually…
The Scientific Imperative of Human Spaceflight
…horizon, partly because we have no science of consciousness that could be technologically implemented, and partly because of moral objections to the enhancement of consciousness. The efficacy of consciousness enhancing…
Worldships: A Interview with Greg Matloff
…Matloff, a man I described when writing Centauri Dreams (the book) as the ‘renaissance man of interstellar studies.’ Perhaps best known for his continuing work on solar sails, Matloff’s interests…
Spacefaring Mythologies
…the Archetypal Age. The EEA is when the archetypes of the human collective unconscious were laid down (and they are with us still), and these archetypes vary slightly from region…
The People’s Space Odyssey: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
…God, it’s full of stars!” This statement was written in the 2001 novelization by Clarke, but never said in the film version. As if to make up for its lack…