Seti and Dreams
Close Encounters of Other Kind in The Mysterious Wall
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21575558 |
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| Authors | Denis Sivkov (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 82-90 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Literary Journal Logos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0869-5377 • E-ISSN: 2499-9628 |
| Publisher | National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17323/0869-5377-2024-4-82-90 |
| OpenAlex | W4403870626 |
| Language | EN |
The Mysterious Wall film presents a contact between an alien civilization and earthlings. The heroes of the film try to interact with the “wall” using simple symbols of a universal language, which, as it seems to them, should be understandable to all sentient beings. However, aliens communicate with earthlings through dreams. The article presents an anthropological perspective on contact of a different degree with an alien civilization. Following Eduardo Kohn, we consider dreams as a unique means of communication between terrestrial and extraterrestrial actors
Astrobiology · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Search for extraterrestrial intelligence · Psychology · Space exploration and regulation · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Highly cited | No |
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