Assessing the robustness of the emergence of intelligence: testing the selfish biocosm hypothesis (#IAA-00-IAA.9.2.06) |
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| Authors: | James N Gardner President |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States;2. Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, United States;3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States;1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA;2. Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA;3. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA;4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA;5. Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA;6. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Selfish Biocosm hypothesis asserts that the anthropic qualities which our universe exhibits can be explained as incidental consequences of a cosmological replication cycle in which a cosmologically extended biosphere supplies two of the essential elements of self-replication identified by von Neumann.Further, the hypothesis asserts that the emergence of life and intelligence are key epigenetic thresholds in the cosmological replication cycle, strongly favored by the physical laws and constants of inanimate nature. A falsifiable implication of the hypothesis is that the emergence of increasingly intelligent life is a robust phenomenon, stongly favored by the natural processes of biological evolution |
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