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> he’s not actually arguing against any of the conclusions we might draw from the spaceship Earth concept he's criticizing the ideological component of spacesh
by smhost 6y ago
> he’s not actually arguing against any of the conclusions we might draw from the spaceship Earth concept
he's criticizing the ideological component of spaceship earth. nature worship is a powerful tendency within the cultural imagination, and different political groups have mobilized it in ways that have sometimes been catastrophic. e.g., ecofascism was a significant component of nazi ideology.
also, your second paragraph is not valid. you equate "life and intelligent beings" with "varying distributions of protons, electrons, and photons," which Deutsch never did.
- simonh 6y agoThe said all you need is matter, energy and information, and intergalactic space has all three. You just need to know how to put it all together the right way, and that intergalactic space isn’t so different from here after all.