SETI Institute Calls for New Tools in Search for ET | SETI Institute
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/press-release/seti-institute-calls-new-tools-search-et
“Alien Mindscapes – A Perspective on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” authored by Nathalie A. Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan
Center for Research at the SETI Institute, suggests the need for a sea change in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, where the full
complement of physical, biological, computer and social sciences are deployed in a quest to look for life as we do not know it. Cabrol asserts
that “To find ET, we must open our minds beyond a deeply-rooted, Earth-centric perspective, expand our research methods and deploy new tools.
Never before has so much data been available in so many scientific disciplines to help us grasp the role of probabilistic events in the
development of extraterrestrial intelligence. These data tell us that each world is a unique planetary experiment. Advanced intelligent life
is likely plentiful in the universe, but may be very different from us, based on what we now know of the coevolution of life and environment.”