[HN Gopher] The Origin of Technosignatures
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       The Origin of Technosignatures
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-07-05 14:06 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | betwixthewires wrote:
       | That's actually a very interesting concept (although the word
       | "dataome" is IMO a terrible descriptor) and one that is fun to
       | explore.
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       | I think that all endeavors of living organisms inherit the
       | dynamic and balance seeking properties of the Darwinian
       | phenomenon that gives rise to them, and I think that the
       | fundamentals of it go largely over our heads. Exploring
       | technology as an emergent phenomenon within a Darwinian system is
       | very intriguing.
        
         | throwawaybutwhy wrote:
         | The piece is only content marketing for a book. An
         | astrobiologist looking for technosignatures and making up
         | technobabble on the go - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
         | uneatable.
        
           | betwixthewires wrote:
           | Maybe, but the technobabble inspires exploring pretty fun
           | concepts, one example would be we tend to think of technology
           | as something humans do, but really humans are specimens
           | within a spontaneously emerging system and our subjectivity
           | prevents us from constantly being cognizant of that, so
           | really technology emerged spontaneously from the biosphere
           | itself, we are just the mechanism by which that happened.
        
       | oolonthegreat wrote:
       | Read like a literary peace than a scientific one. I understood
       | that dataome is a "very provocative", "intimate and inextricable"
       | concept, but not what it actually is.
        
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