Since humans learned to use tools and created unnaturally evolved substances, they have transcended ordinary animals, achieved class leaps, and established their own civilization.
And as an independent-thinking individual, how to survive the crisis and competition that individuals cannot solve is the importance of forming an organization.
But such a group often needs a core that unites everyone's thoughts, and this kind of behavioral unity requires a common belief and support. Religion is a good example.
Religion has established a kind of spiritual leader that transcends ordinary people, restrained people's disorderly and chaotic struggles, and pushed the world and mankind into a stable conscience, a forward momentum with huge centripetal force.
Many people may think that religion and science are in a very antagonistic relationship. After enjoying the benefits brought by the rapid development of science, has made religion gradually acquire a superstitious character and even become a pseudoscience.
Science has naturally become the fundamental reason for promoting the development of civilization in people's minds. The reason for this logic is that the development of science has established a very positive positive feedback loop. The discovery of
technology has greatly changed people's production and life. This is a very obvious and countless verified fact. also promotes people to invest more thoughts and resources into scientific development and research.
Imaginary Community
For this reason, science has gradually developed rapidly under such positive promotion, and has become the mainstream thought of the times. But is religion useless?
This is not the case. The establishment of human civilization comes from a unified, orderly and relatively same general goal. In the early days of such a goal, it was religion that took on such responsibilities.
People need to gain some recognition, establish some consensus , or form a set of the same logic to bring together the wisdom of this individual with rich ideas and form a very powerful driving force for civilization.
Religion provided humankind with the responsibility of imagining a community and providing spiritual and cultural value in the early days. However, in an era when religion has gradually declined and science has become mainstream, "religion" still exists.
"Religion" is just another model. With the emergence of political bodies or collectives such as companies, laws, countries, and the United Nations, is not a material concept, but an imaginary community of human beings created in spirit and thought.
For this reason, the development of science and "religion" is a mutual restriction, mutual breakthrough, and mutual balance. They are gradually changing and updating, and promote the progress of human civilization. The statement
seems to illustrate. To a large extent, the development of civilization is due to the simultaneous development of ideas and science and technology. The high development of civilization means that the level of moral character and ideas are also very high.
Human beings have so far not found any civilization other than the earth. The possible existence of planets that are suitable for the development of carbon-based organisms are all based on distances measured in light years.
Extraterrestrial civilization
If extraterrestrial civilizations want to reach the earth, they must first solve the problem of visible comets and debris as well as the interference of invisible cosmic rays during the long journey. This requires very strict quality requirements in the construction of starships.
Planets that may have life observed within the same visible range also require starship power close to or reaching one-tenth of the speed of light in order to meet the basic standards of starship exploration.
In such a cruel cosmic space, to achieve the leap to the earth, it must have a technological level that far exceeds the current earth civilization.
assumes that just like the development of human civilization, a civilization that far exceeds the current level of human science and technology is also likely to have a high level of spiritual civilization and moral standards.
Therefore, if extraterrestrial civilizations from afar can travel across the stars, it is impossible for them to have the so-called knotting method of recording events. The reason why human has moved towards the rapid development of science and technology lies largely in the retention and inheritance of knowledge.
The preservation of human knowledge is based on the emergence of text and paper, and even today's electronic information. Therefore, the extraterrestrial planet has a high degree of civilization, which means that it has a more convenient and more conducive way to spread and store knowledge.
Just like " Three-body " in Liu Cixin , the reason why Trisolaran people have a very high degree of civilization is that their thoughts and thinking are straightforward and can be shared.
This way of thinking and thinking has greatly promoted the storage and exchange of knowledge. Therefore, when extraterrestrial civilizations can master such a level of civilization technology, they must have a relatively efficient communication mode instead of an inefficient rope-tying method.
Some people also pointed out whether there will be a civilization that specializes in conquest and killing, and their life creed is based on the use of force, using force as the standard of judgment. Similar civilization forms like
have been shown in many science fiction novels, and are also reflected in major movies and TV shows. For example, in the construction of the Marvel world, there are many civilizations, and civilizations that focus on killing naturally also exist.
However, this kind of nation, which is built on killing and lacks relative moral character and peaceful beliefs and ideas, often presents a backward psychological impression in the history of the development of human civilization.
However, a civilization that is good at conquest and killing may not necessarily be a civilization with low communication efficiency. Such examples can also be witnessed in the history of struggles between ethnic minorities and the Central Plains. Although nations or civilizations like
that are good at conquest are lacking in moral construction, they also have relatively efficient methods of communication and resource sharing.
This situation shows that among extraterrestrial civilizations, if there were civilizations that also lacked morality and kindness, they would be extremely unlikely to exchange and store information by tying knots to record events.
Conclusion
Exploring extraterrestrial civilizations and developing the truth about the universe is the dream and pursuit of humans or astronomers. Such pursuits cannot achieve ultra-distant interstellar navigation under the limitations of existing technology.
The emergence of science fiction novels and film and television works has filled and satisfied the regrets of this era, allowing us to roam freely in the world of ideas.
Among them, the emergence of the dark forest theory of "Three-Body" is the result of the intersection of sociology and cosmology. The emergence and popularization of this theory has greatly shocked people's minds.
Looking up at the starry sky, looking at the stars in the sky and the bright galaxies, the neutron star is gradually collapsing and erupting in the high-speed rotation, like a sudden bright flashlight light in a dark room, making the vast universe burst out with a dazzling mystery.
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