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Analysis of Some Speculations Concerning the Far Future of Intelligent Civilizations

Clément Vidal

Foundations of Science 17 (1):43-46 (2012)

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The Future of Life and What it Means for Humanity.John E. Stewart - 2012 - Foundations of Science 17 (1):47-50.details Vidal’s (Found Sci, 2010 ) and Rottiers’s (Found Sci, 2010 ) commentaries on my (2010) paper raised a number of important issues about the possible future trajectory of evolution and its implications for humanity. My response emphasizes that despite the inherent uncertainty involved in extrapolating the trajectory of evolution into the far future, the possibilities it reveals nonetheless have significant strategic implications for what we do with our lives here and now, individually and collectively. One important implication is the replacement (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Fine-Tuning, Quantum Mechanics and Cosmological Artificial Selection.Clément Vidal - 2012 - Foundations of Science 17 (1):29-38.details Jan Greben criticized fine-tuning by taking seriously the idea that “nature is quantum mechanical”. I argue that this quantum view is limited, and that fine-tuning is real, in the sense that our current physical models require fine-tuning. Second, I examine and clarify many difficult and fundamental issues raised by Rüdiger Vaas’ comments on Cosmological Artificial Selection. Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
What We Have Time for: Historical Responsibility on the Largest Scale.Steven G. Smith - 2019 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 13 (2):163-182.details A historically responsible agent is willing to be somehow in practical solidarity with all other actors with whom action is shared over time. The responsible idea of a most-inclusive history encompasses future occurrence together with all that has happened already. Despite our lack of control over future developments, we assess possible future ages as bright or dark and position ourselves as contributors to multigenerational endeavors that we hope will be long-term successes in themselves and part of a larger historical optimality. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Participating in the Meaning of Life, a Contributor’s Critique.Franc Rottiers - 2012 - Foundations of Science 17 (1):39-41.details The aim of this contribution is to critically examine the metaphysical presuppositions that prevail in (Stewart in Found Sci 15(4):395–409, 2010a ) answer to the question “are we in the midst of a developmental process?” as expressed in his statement “that humanity has discovered the trajectory of past evolution and can see how it is likely to continue in the future”. Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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