Title
The InCosmiCon research center and its activities in the field of SETI, big history and interculturality
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Musso P.
Antonietti N.
Asla M.
Atachahua W.
Azcona G.
Benvenuti P.
Francesco B.
Biavaschi P.
Capatinta M.
Ceroni M.
Sánchez L.C.
Crippa R.
de Paulis D.
Dutil Y.
Facchetti G.
Facchin L.
Gómez Á.
Gustafson L.
Jordan A.
Laffitte L.
Lagos D.
López D.
Maccone C.
Maspero G.
Melis A.
Montebugnoli S.
Monticelli R.C.F.
Navarro J.
Oliva J.
Pagan F.
Mariotto F.P.
Pereyra C.
Rossi L.
Savio G.
Spiriti A.
Vaidyanathan B.
González L.V.
Cervantes V.D.V.
Viaña C.
Vianelli A.
Vicentini A.
Vinces P.V.
Zapata R.
Zumaeta E.
Publisher(s)
International Astronautical Federation, IAF
Abstract
As announced at the IAC 2019 held in Washington, at the beginning of 2020 the University of Insubria (Italy), in collaboration with the UCSS of Lima (Peru), has created a new research center called InCosmiCon (Intelligence in the Cosmic Context), based at the Department of Human Sciences, Innovation and Territory (DISUIT). Its goal is to investigate the nature of intelligence in an interdisciplinary way and with a realistic approach, in the context of the history of humankind, of our planet and the whole universe, avoiding the specular errors of reductionism and dualism. InCosmiCon has already been joined by various illustrious scientists in the field of space sciences, as the former IAU Secretary General Piero Benvenuti, now Honorary President of InCosmiCon, and also by some members of the IAA SETI Committee, as Paolo Musso, Director of InCosmiCon, and the present Chairman of the IAA SETI Committee Claudio Maccone, who has been nominated Coordinator of the InCosmiCon SETI Section, whose aim is to support the implementation of SETI programs everywhere it is possible, especially in Italy and Latin America, and to participate in the interdisciplinary work about extraterrestrial intelligence promoted by the IAA SETI Committee. Other Sections of InCosmiCon are devoted to Big History and Intercultural Communication, especially focusing on the extraordinary experience of the UCSS Amazonian seat, the UCSS-Nopoki of Atalaya, which could be also a model for a positive interaction with a hypothetical extraterrestrial civilization. In the present paper some of the InCosmiCon members are going to present its structure, its first results, and its projects for the next future, while a separate paper will be specifically devoted to a Peruvian project about Astrobiology and Optical SETI.
Volume
2020-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85100939785
Source
Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC
ISSN of the container
00741795
Conference
71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020
Sponsor(s)
This publication incorporates results from the research project entitled Science, Philosophy and Theology: Capability Building in Latin America funded by the John Templeton Foundation under a research award held by the University of Oxford, to which we are very grateful for their support. We also wish to thank a lot the Universities UCSS and UNIFÉ of Lima for believing in the project, and the associations SCAP and EYU, the Universities UNMSM and UTEC, the SPC of the IAA, all the professors and students of the UCSS Nopoki, and all the speakers of the final Congress celebrated in Lima for their fantastic contribution to the success of the project.
This project was proposed in 2016 by the UCSS and the UNIFÉ of Lima and awarded one of the six Oxford Templeton Visiting Fellowships to Latin America offered for the year 2017 by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford and funded by the John Templeton Foundation in the context of Science, Philosophy and Theology in Latin America, a three-year project (2015-2017) which, in turn, was the second part of a wider project of the University of Oxford in Latin America, whose first phase was represented by the project CYRAL (2011-2013), also funded by the JTF.
This publication incorporates results from the research project entitled Science, Philosophy and Theology: Capability Building in Latin America funded by the John Templeton Foundation under a research award held by the University of Oxford, to which we are very grateful for their support.
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