Concept of Alien

The concept of alien otherness has existed since time immemorial. But not until humans developed a science fiction sense of the universe (without getting into ancient alien shit) did we invent the idea of 'Aliens' as another humanoid originating from another place in the galaxy. I can't trace the idea/experience of alien visitation throughout human history, but at least in the past few centuries with the advent of modern astronomy the possibility has become increasingly open to speculation. Ancient Greek philosophers discussed it long ago. I'm sure when any human from any pre-industrial era from any culture anywhere on the earth looked up at the sky they felt eyes staring back, whether only in the recesses of the deep psyche. 

But it begs the question of what 'alien' is. Alien is defined by otherness, so can't we all be aliens? Naturally, an intragalactic encounter would send shockwaves within humanity that'd alter our existence forever. But if the only reason we are alien to one another is dislocation within the field of pure Nature then any cosmic species would be our family - although that thought can easily be contested. If spacetime is only an inflection with mind and vice versa then our being is connected to any other on whatever side of the galaxy. That of course is a very bold statement to make for life can occur independently with no organic relation to other crops of life. (Hence ALIEN the MOVIE, EVIL GRASSHOPPER SCORPION RACE)

Yet when you realize our actual experience, of cosmic loneliness and the desolation that reigns over this earth, you begin to perhaps see the earth as a patchwork of many alien worlds. Especially in this day and age, when the human tree's roots have been hacked from the Old Mother. 

The diversity of subjectivity and florescence of experience brings us over and over to the experience of alienness and yet undercurrents of communion. Yet without speculating on the thing of alienation from Nature and our animal and plant kin, there is a radical break between us and the other beings on this earth. I sometimes stare back into my cat's eyes and I see a strange, strange creature. The wild minds of this earth. Finding their own niches. Working together, falling apart, singing jungle songs, prairie songs, desert songs, forest songs, mountain songs, tundra songs. Oy! What a crazy world! 

Specimen # 30393921358 The Alderaan Principle. . . .

 

Now, where did I put my drink.... you see my days are boring, long, and mostly uneventful.... there's only one good way I know how to deal with it: drink, and to read. But every now and again I need to write. And well, I've been fiddling around here and there in my brain, here and there, where there are a number of ideas which like peas are snugged away ready to snug back up, and in time pierce the membrane so I can pluck em up and stick em in my gob, to spit them back into the world...

Anyway; I meant to conduct an experiment, and, now that I have your basic attention, whether or not you keep it and don't let your head sour......

 

I want to assume that anything is possible in this rather stupid-mad but nevertheless genius universe, this old thingery that we, as sentient beings, must pay pitch our pitiful pesos intto... let me just get to the main point.

1.

The 'Alderaan' or 'Space' Principle is active in such and such a sense that the very possibility of the existence of a Star Wars 'universe'... indicates the possibility that Star Wars actually existed! Yes. You heard me right. As a philosophical and scientific dilettante, I am presuming to posit the fantasization of the Star Wars universe is itself based ultimately in the microbial mind spores which have emanated from beyond, through the intergalactic space channels which pollinate our various island universes.¹ 

Let me qualify this with a reminder of the already proposed theory of Panspermia. Briefly this posits that life in our solar system (Nexus Plexus from here on out) could have been produced through various nebular seedlings derived from the ancient cosmic soil— of which I dare say humans would have very little true historical reckoning (though I'm no scientist, some even call me a quack)— and thus the Panspermia Theory is the hypothesis of intragalactic ~ via space rock trajectories ~ cosmic life, whose interseeding dynamics being one, but not the only, possible origins of life.

Now to leap a little bit, if we presume that every little beadlet of consciousness has some potential value in this sea we call the Nexus Plexus, in the sense that even a thought, whilst alone in the desert of the rock, is in fact itself a butterfly rocking of that rock, through the thought of thought— then we can presume at least that the intercosmic spaces between many celestial bodies have, eventually, some sort of impact on one another, granted that entropy doesn't destroy it all by the spread of absolute void. (Speaking of your sex life...!)

Yet there are many reasons to argue against this proposition, mainly that the mind is only an emergent phenomena which depends upon a fundamentally biological functioning, and so 'mind spores' would just be a grotesque idealization; however, for the sake of imagination we will hold the idea as potentially possible. However, in a more realistic sense we needn't rely on 'mind spores' at all, for in this theory of intergalactic life-seeding, as long as a biological bacterium (or, a basic life organism) is able to traverse and survive the intergalactic recesses and penetrate successfully a new planetary 'ovum,' then the same genetically evolutionary seed may begin again.

This, of course, is a huge argumentary leap, because there's no reason to think that a simple genetic framework could unravel in the same way, in the end producing a similar intelligent, civilization-capable species-planet. But speaking as a gardener, it is more important to plant seeds and develop life then to expect an Eden, and I think possibility is the essence of the panspermia hypothesis. 

With that said -- - -  - - - - - - - the hypothesis contained in the Alderaan Principle is all to say that once the mother strain begins taking off in a suitable new environment, and undergoes a fresh round of evolution, it has the possibility of generating a genetically familial offshoot of the base evolutionary complex. In the Alderaan Principle enough material is supposed to have been accumulated in a collective genetic colony to configure a parallel planetary gene pool (I would say though that this probably is unlikely and most likely would not match up with genuine, rigorous, and scientifically supported evolutionary theory). Thus while the evolutionary transplant will express itself uniquely in its adaptation to novel circumstances, the same evolutionary essentials¹— the not quite but more or less universal phenomenological-biological structure— will develop a sister genealogy that is latent within this fresh seed. So when a new system is seeded and life opens up a new chapter upon itself, the succeeding and preceding genealogies are connected and related to each other through an absolute familiarity - in the sense as the parent and the child are one and the same cheese.

Thus when Star Wars impregnated our semen we watch "Star Wars" as a science "fiction" that was spawned out of some "nerd's" mind but in reality the "spore" of the "idea" which "Lucas" pushed out his placenta was in fact just a mirroring of the basic fundamental cosmic "essence" named "Pringle." 

1That is, the general familiarity in appearance and anatomical structure, as well as species familiarity, which would make one planet less ‘alien’ to another. In Star Wars, many of the aliens can be considered ‘humanoid’ because in basic structure they resemble humans, but generally originated from a different animal order, other than primate.

3.?  

The question might arise as to why the Star Wars universe appears to be diametrically opposite to earth civilization; but actually, if you think about it,......................... and in evolution's many ages... there may be an extreme differentiation in content while the form remains more determined. That is, one often wonders why in the Star Wars galaxy the prime weapon is lazer machines; but one might be neglecting to consider that our own history may have unraveled along a completely alien trajectory which was brought forth from a completely different technological paradigm. It takes imagining and a willing dismissal of any hard historical determinism, an emphasis on innovative flukes, chance, anomaly, and the underlying pliableness of evolution itself, in order to see how we may have developed on a more 'enlightened' technological wavelength. Naturally if the previous civilized galactic system which included thousand of different, cooperating species and only managed to self annihilate itself after eons of political experiments, its technological apparati were based upon a different and seemingly less violent lineage. (Except when the Death Star began murdering everything)

Some technotheorists may argue that technology has a reductive tendency to become more powerful and powerful and that the tendency towards maximum automation, integrated systems, creative/destructive capacity,etc, is an inherent tendency, but aside from the fact that many cultures and species naturally shun excess of technocracy....... may they be at peace

2.

Ah! Ive fallen into drink again! Bloody heaven, this is not fun. But necessary. So I say, in my stupid ponderance state, come now. The philosophy of the micro-macro and the cosm— it is evident as the suds in my brain of course? There is a simple principle which is easily translatable between cultures .  . .

Im drunk as heaven but, I oublietted a lot a shit it's insane and stupid... who

our spiritual spacemoniker , having dried up , foggied. . . . . blind . . . . . ..... ..... 

 

 

 

 

1 Actually, there's no reason to believe that Star Wars necessarily happened in a galaxy "far far away," because it could also be likely it came from a system which was far far away within the Milky Way or another nearby galaxy (according to current NASA estimates, there are 3,200 other confirmed solar systems within the Milky Way, out of 200 billion stars). I doubt humanity's confidence in asserting its extreme universal isolation, or the life possibilities in the sentient terrain of the Milky Way.