Of the plurality of inhabited worlds , to be prepared or not to contact other civilizations outside the Solar System

Going through the ancestral myths, the first philosophical speculations of Western thought in its awakening to modern modern science, humanity has had the concern that if it is alone in the universe, if there was someone else among the stars with these same thoughts, even more to be thinking. The truth is that the vastness of the cosmos are immense and still very mysterious for humanity to have the certainty that it is so alone in the universe, that intelligence is given from time to time and above all what requirements it needs to reach the stars and not to die trying, much less to become extinct very quickly when reaching them as a technological species and explorer of the stars.

The truth is that humanity within the long history of the universe is the species, at best the youngest among species, that has reached its status as a technological species, after spending a long period as a primitive species before trying to leave its world, but humanity still has a long way to go as a species until it reaches the necessary elements to cover all the requirements of a species intelligently developed at a technological level and responsible management of the resources it uses to stay active in its technological and historical progress . During all this space, a species, such as humans, is far from achieving efficiency in the effective and responsible distribution of the resources it obtains from its world, if it manages to achieve this responsibility and resource efficiency, it can take the next step towards the exploitation of other worlds close to your world and climb up to the intended ladder of advanced civilization, developed and efficient at a technological and energy level.

Another interesting question when dealing with intelligent life on other places in the universe is the aspect of contact with other species, from which they have the notion that they are not alone in the universe and have achieved a considerable development of knowledge to have indications of that it is unlikely that there will be no one, wanting to be able to contact, but those who have already reached a great development have no intention or interest in claiming to have direct contact on these underdeveloped species, looking at most some specimens for study and fatten up your galactic encyclopedias with compendiums of species that unfold on every habitable world, as random explorations or in passing, but beyond that there is unlikely to be any real interest in the civilizations out there for humanity.

Humanity is still far from having contact with another intelligence from another world, in the progressive development of its species as technological intelligence it will not only entail a technical development but also an evolution towards a sense of responsibility and a new ethic more inclined to be. crossed by science, that by the religious values ​​of which currently the most ethical of all human beings is impregnated beyond denying any belief, the truth is that every human being is crossed by moral and ethical values that have roots deep down in religious beliefs, and that can hinder the first generations of human beings who set out to explore among the stars as they find themselves deeply imbued with those ties of the legacy ancestors, even though they do not have a true conviction of sense of belief towards a creed are there, calling and developing what we are and have to be, which is why Before eagerly coming into contact with another intelligent civilization, it should first be thought that humanity will go through various processes of internal evolution, not only at the physical or technological level, but also at the internal level of its consciousness of how it will perceive the universe and all its inhabitants. in it before addressing a direct contact and presenting themselves on behalf of all humanity, as beings who have left in the past the vestiges of those ancestors' bonfires contemplating that they were those bright lights in the icy nights of the firmament of a world lost among billions of worlds.

In short, humanity for more good intentions and search for answers to its existentialist concerns about its being, which sometimes roar with desperation that contemplate at the stars and their origins to know where it comes from and why it has come in such a way Until the intimidating relationship her being meets with the cosmos and how far she will go in her history, she is not yet ready to find intelligence that satisfies her concerns, for now in her development as an explorer species of her closest spaces she may first find microbial life as a starting point, which is no small thing and has a great impact on its own existence by knowing how life makes its way and thus creating more complex life forms such as humanity, and when it leaves your Solar System to the nearest stars, waiting for you more than five thousand rocky worlds with a diversity of flora and fauna that not even the clearest imagination could conceive of how it would be still, finding exotic vegetation never seen or perhaps paradigmatic by finding similarities with some of the Earth and understanding how such similarities make their way despite the immense spaces of many distant worlds, and then basic animal forms not too complex than the first rodents of the world. Jurassic period or even more particular in its biodiversity.

In summary, humanity is not yet prepared how to deal with a first contact in the face of the great diversity of discrepancies that its own species lives, and the lack of joint and efficient cooperation that has not yet been successfully achieved for a civilization from another world intends to maintain some type of contact, at most a civilization sent some type of exploratory probe to verify the development of possible intelligent species or that one of these probes is only passing through the Solar System and collects passing information that within In this system there is a lack of intelligence but without great progress to have direct contact, both for intentions not to interfere in the development of its species or for mere disinterest that it cannot contribute anything to its own civilization.

The human species still finds many deep-rooted ties of beliefs from its past as a species inclined towards the supernatural and divinities, well demonstrated by the cosnpiracy theories that seek to see in intelligences from other parts of the universe as presumed saviors of humanity by coming to this world to help them, an intentional reworking of the old messianic beliefs or avatars that appear from time to time when the decadence of humanity is evident and a redeemer comes from heaven to restore order, when in reality it is humanity itself that must seek their own answers and solutions to their problems, something that more developed intelligences will know much better. If the ants have problems in their little anthill world, humanity does not hesitate to go to that anthill to help them solve that problem, on the contrary, or the ants know how to cope with the problems that their anthill has or they end up perishing, and humanity nor is it impacted by one less anthill, that is how it should be in the universe, one less species among the billions of stars in the nearest galaxies has no impact, it only refers a calamity to the perspective of the species itself, which in its search for specificity irrelevant pretends to transfer it to the rest of the universe, but the Copernicus Principle is clear, no intelligence is so great as to be so special in the universe, it is lost among many others that presume to be special in their own specific sense.

For humanity to have a first contact with another intelligence, it must first go through various filters that will lead it to a society that is much more efficient in terms of resources, social balance and an ethic without ties or ties of religious roots, something that humanity today is found to be or not a believer of some type of creed, the ethics they pursue are tied to those traditions and can be conflicting against another civilization, therefore a civilization should evolve towards a society with a more court ethic scientific, which would imply other values ​​that would be very disconcerting, somewhat frivolous and unknown to the human intellect. It should be taken into account that a large part of human society does not have true access to formal education and those that do have it start from a null access to scientific knowledge, among other factors that also motivate social inequalities and tensions between all their inhabitants due to the poor distribution of the wealth that is exploited in this world. Humanity still has many outstanding accounts regarding the accumulated debts of the past that have not yet been paid and those that are still accumulating before aspiring to contact with another intelligence more developed than their own in many aspects of their existence. Or humanity begins to rethink how to organize its society as a species and see the benefits that leaving its world can bring and go to other worlds up to the stars and achieve the degree of stability, prosperity and development to guarantee its survival as has been doing for 200,000 years or perish and disappear as an irrelevant species, being supplanted by the next species that if it succeeds.

By: Alejandro Sebastián von Heguer, National University of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires.

In collaboration with: Alejandro Blade, Directors of the Centennial Park Observatories, Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomía. Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.