ET Life Day 2 (H): Anthropocentrism and PDF

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Humanities lecture....

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HAve iClicker by Wednesday and don’t forget to register Quiz on BlackBoard (in Modules) due by Friday (open all week) Over the weekend we will be notified of our group project English Literary critics and theorists SF=science fiction (not “sci-fi”) Anthropocentrism: r egarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence, especially as opposed to God or animals. )Example: ET is shaped like a human, has intelligence similar to human intelligence, he has similar kinds of values) Carbon Chauvinism: Biased in not considering that there aren’t others that have radically different makeup Philosophy

Why do we want to sort out the living from the non-living? Why is it that defining life is difficult? Any definition of life depends on a theory. “Real” and “Essential” definitions are attempts to find the truth and essence “Necessary conditions “and “sufficient conditions”: A condition must be satisfied to guarantee that this state of affairs to gain. We can’t make assumptions about cellular structures and DNAs/DNA polymers...