Diana Walsh Pasulka

including the ancient atomist, Copernican, Cartesian, and the Newtonian worldviews.

Dick argues that from an epistemological point of view, the methods of astrobiology in the 20th century are as empirical as in any historical science such as astronomy or geology.

Dick has also surveyed the field of astrobiology in critical issues in the history, philosophy, and sociology of astrobiology.

On December 4th, 2013, while holding the NASA Library of Congress chair in astrobiology, Dick testified on astrobiology before the U.S.

House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, arguing that SETI funding should be restored and integrated with the NASA astrobiology program.

Hold on, go back to that.

This part, the intelligence principle.

Is a hypothetical idea of Dick's in the field of cultural evolution.

Outlined is 2003 paper, Cultural Evolution, the Post-Biological Universe and SETI.

The intelligence principle describes a potential binding tendency among all intelligent societies, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial.

The maintenance, improvement, and perpetuation of knowledge and intelligence is the central driving force of cultural evolution.

And that to the extent intelligence can be improved, it will be improved.

That certainly seems to be true.

Yeah.

So what has it been like for you to go from a person that before you visit this crash site, you think this is all nonsense.

To where you are now, having written two books about it and very careful with your words and realizing how bizarre this is to now having this conversation with me in front of millions of people.

What has this been like for you?

That's cool to know what you want to do when you're 11.

I often struggle with the concept that the human mind is incapable of grasping the truth.

That even if it was presented to us, we don't have the capability to truly incorporate it into our, not just worldview, but universe view, life view, existence view.