Similarly, Lawrence J. Henderson, a professor of biological chemistry at Harvard, wrote 10 years after Wallace, “[t]here is . . . one scientific conclusion which I wish to put forward as a positive statement and, I trust, fruitful outcome o…The second possible outcome of cosmic evolution reveals a quite different destiny. The biological universe—the universe in which cosmic evolution commonly ends in life, mind, and intelligence—means that we will almost certainly interact wit…
Olaf Stapledon
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Stapledon appears only as a passing reference in these excerpts, which focus instead on Lawrence J. Henderson's theories of cosmic evolution and the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. The fragments suggest the course is engaging with early twentieth-century speculative thinking about life's place in the universe, where Stapledon likely figures as a touchstone for science fiction or philosophical speculation about cosmic destiny rather than a primary theoretical framework for the seminar's concerns with AI and cybernetics.
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