Similarly, but with the Christian tradition, the British biochemist and Anglican priest, Sir Arthur Peacocke, has called cosmic evolution “Genesis for the third millennium.” He believes that “any theology—any attempt to relate God to all-th…In short, both in our relationship with extraterrestrials and with God—however conceived—human destiny would be quite different in a universe full of biologicals or postbiologicals than if we were alone. If extraterrestrial intelligence is …Whether intelligence is rare or abundant, whether extraterrestrial life is of a lower order or a higher order than Homo sapiens, human destiny is intimately connected with cosmic evolution. Driven by the astronomical, biological, and cultur…
Freeman Dyson
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Dyson appears in these readings primarily as a theoretical framework for thinking through how cosmic evolution and the possible abundance of extraterrestrial intelligence reshape human theological and existential destiny. His work enables the argument that our relationship to God, technology, and the cosmos itself cannot be theorized in isolation from questions about whether intelligence is rare or abundant in the universe. The course uses Dyson's cosmological thinking to ground discussions of how artificial intelligence and posthuman futures might fit within larger evolutionary and theological narratives.
Background
Freeman John Dyson was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering. He was professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a member of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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