宇宙的草:借助费米悖论重思技术圈、行星历史与可持续性
The Grass of the Universe: Rethinking Technosphere, Planetary History, and Sustainability with Fermi Paradox
AI总结:
本文将SETI领域的费米悖论作为思辨工具,结合“可持续性解决方案”重思环境人文学科的技术圈、行星历史、可持续性概念,提出技术圈是过渡圈层、行星历史需通用视角、宜居性与基因性更适配人类存续的观点。
摘要:
搜寻地外文明计划(SETI)并非环境人文学科的常见研究起点。然而,本文认为该领域衍生的理论对我们思考地球宜居存续的方式具有直接启示。为论证SETI对环境人文学科的作用,本文将费米悖论作为一种思辨工具,用以探究行星历史的可能轨迹,重点分析Jacob Haqq-Misra与Seth Baum提出的“可持续性解决方案(Sustainability Solution)”。该方案指出,地外智慧文明与其行星环境的可持续耦合,是它们能否被远程观测成功探测的核心因素。该方案提出指数增长并非可持续的发展模式,由此排除了星际文明殖民恒星系统或星系的可能。本文详细阐释了Haqq-Misra与Baum的论点,探讨了可持续性解决方案的思辨意义,进而重思环境人文学科中的三个核心概念:技术圈、行星历史与可持续性。本文主张:(1)技术圈是一个过渡性圈层,最终将回归生物圈;(2)行星历史必须从脱离地球特殊性的通用视角来理解;(3)可持续性并非人类在地球宜居存续的充分核心要素,宜居性与基因性(genesity)是更合适的替代概念。
英文摘要:
SETI is not a usual point of departure for environmental humanities. However, this paper argues that theories originating in this field have direct implications for how we think about viable inhabitation of the Earth. To demonstrate SETI's impact on environmental humanities, this paper introduces Fermi paradox as a speculative tool to probe possible trajectories of planetary history, and especially the "Sustainability Solution" proposed by Jacob Haqq-Misra and Seth Baum. This solution suggests that sustainable coupling between extraterrestrial intelligences and their planetary environments is the major factor in the possibility of their successful detection by remote observation. By positing that exponential growth is not a sustainable development pattern, this solution rules out space-faring civilizations colonizing solar systems or galaxies. This paper elaborates on Haqq-Misra's and Baum's arguments, and discusses speculative implications of the Sustainability Solution, thus rethinking three concepts in environmental humanities: technosphere, planetary history, and sustainability. The paper advocates that (1) technosphere is a transitory layer that shall fold back into biosphere; (2) planetary history must be understood in a generic perspective that abstracts from terrestrial particularities; and (3) sustainability is not sufficient vector of viable human inhabitation of the Earth, suggesting instead habitability and genesity as better candidates.
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