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The fun part about the panspermia theory is that it's a very old idea first proposed by Anaxagoras (c. 500 – c. 428 BC), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He h
by miniwark 4y ago
The fun part about the panspermia theory is that it's a very old idea first proposed by Anaxagoras (c. 500 – c. 428 BC), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
He had also imagined the concept of a "Cosmic mind" (Nous). If i understand well, for him, this "Cosmic mind" is not really an external metaphysical god, but more a physical part of the universe itself. A mind inside the universe, but isolated from the rest, and who try to organise everything else in the universe (including life).
- college_physics 4y agoMost probably such ideas were propagated in oral traditions and embedded in religious thinking ever since homo sapiens got their brain activated. Removing anthropocentric exceptionalism has been a major driver of what we (now) call scientific thought but it is really just a "state of mind" that precedes more sophisticated, culture contingent, frameworks. Ofcourse there is a major difference between betting that "X is not different that all the Y's" and actually proving it :-), which is what makes this field of inquiry so fascinating.