What pop culture gets wrong about aliens and life in the universe.
This sermon is a critique of the youtube video titled “Immortality, Religion, & the Search for Life | Dr. David Kipping | EP 463” With which we will compare the beliefs of neoBuddhism, with the beliefs in pop culture, which are often associated with the astronomical perspective of our place in the universe. In contrast to the perspectives offered by Dr. Kipping, we (neoBuddhists) will present a perspective which integrates some of the neoBuddhist beliefs around the origin of life, which include the possibility for life to emerge on other planets in the universe, even those quite dissimilar from the current status of our own, in atmospheric composition.As well as a perspective on how we might consider alien life, as equals rather than superior or inferior. Being neoBuddhists, we have in contrast to most other religions, a metric for measuring the intelligence and complexity of both biological and synthetic life, while Dr. Kipping is in denial of the possibility of synthetic life. We have, which is currently under development and subject to revision, The 7 Levels of Sapience as a metric to start with. Which we feel is more useful than simply denying the possibility, should that form of life be encountered. DInescription of the transcript that follows:Dr. Jordan Peterson sits down with the director of the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University, Dr. David Kipping. They discuss the likelihood of finding life elsewhere in the universe, what it means to be a Type I civilization, why Mars is our
