Relativism and communication with aliens
Postat den 15th May, 2025, 13:21 av Cornelius Holtorf
Dr Michael Ranta gave a lecture for us today, entitled “On Communication with Remote Cultures and Questions of Relativism” (15 May 2025).
On the picture from the left: Cornelius Holtorf, Gustav Wollentz, Michael Ranta, Peter Skoglund.
Ranta raised some very fundamental issues on truth, representation, communication and aliens:
How would it be possible to communicate with (remote) future generations, which may have different or altered forms of communication, compared to current ones? Apart from language or other communication alterations over time, new semiotic resources (e.g. resulting from technological or medical innovations) may emerge. Moreover, and most probable, the accumulation and processing of knowledge as well as the emergence of altered world views and category systems, or of paradigm changes (in Thomas Kuhn’s sense), may obstruct the comprehension, transmission, and exchange of information. Future generations may thus be confronted with significant obstacles trying to understand or reconstruct our communicative habits. These topics, especially with regard to communication with pictures, will be further elaborated and discussed in this presentation.
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