As Palmeri also points out in Chapter 15 of this volume, in the 1950s and 1960s Harlow Shapley was a prime example of a cosmic evolution evangelist from the astronomical side, being among the first to popularize the cosmic evolutionary pers…44. See, for example, Michael Ashkenazi, “Not the Sons of Adam: Religious Response to ETI,” Space Policy 8 (1992): 341–350. In interviews with 21 religious authorities from a variety of religions, the author found that none believed extrate…
Palmeri
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Palmeri appears to be a scholar who examines the history of cosmic evolution discourse, particularly how figures like Harlow Shapley promoted evolutionary perspectives in mid-twentieth-century astronomy. The course readings invoke Palmeri to historicize how scientific frameworks around evolution and intelligence became intertwined with popular and institutional narratives, which bears directly on understanding how AI and machine learning inherit conceptual legacies from earlier attempts to model intelligence and complexity at cosmic scales.
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