#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

2111.33 - 2135.463 Adam Frank

Life does not create the conditions which will destroy itself, right? It's always trying to keep itself in a place where it can stay alive. So the biosphere, from this guy in perspective, has been autopoietic for billions of years. Now, we just invented this technosphere in the last couple of hundred years. And what we were arguing in that paper is that it's an immature technosphere, right?