The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth

includes index and biblioraphy

Motivations and Approaches............7 Current approaches to finding life beyond earth, and what happens if we do.......9 The philosophy of Astrobiology....23 History, discovery, analogy.........38 A multidimensional impact model for the discovery of Extraterrestrial life.....55 Transcending anthropocentrism.......77 The landscape of life...............81 THe landscape of Intelligence...95 Universal biology...............113 Equating culture, civilization and moral development in Imaging extraterrestrial Intelligence........127 Communicating with the order......143 Philosophical, Theological and moral impact..............155 Life, Intelligence, and the pursuit of value in cosmic evolution..........159 Klaatu barada Nikto or Do they really think like us....175 Alien minds......189 The moral subject of Astrobiology....207 Astrobiology and theolgy...222 Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?.........233 Practical considerations: How should society prepare for discovery- and non-discovery.......245 Is there anything new about astrobiology and society.........249 Preparing for the discovery of extraterrestrial life..........263 Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.......286 SETI in Non-western perspective.......299 The allure of alien life...........308 Internalizing null extraterrestrial signals........324