ETIA Research

• Books I hope to read to research ETIA
• Wikipedia Articles of interest.
• Relevant Tropes from http://www.tvtropes.org/
• Some sources on Ethnography

Media references. These will eventually be sorted to the appropriate subpages.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010
• Babylon 5
• Brave New World partly intended as a parody of Men Like Gods also relevant: Amusing Ourselves to Death. pop culture influence
• Lois McMaster Bujold -- the Vorkosigan Saga.
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Computational Universe Theory Wikipedia article is disappointingly sketchy. It from Bit Physical Roots of It from Bit
• Coruscant in the Star Wars movies and books. The cultures of TDEC are big/rich/old/technologically advanced enough to have achieved this level of population density. However, David Morgan-Mar, in his Irregular Webcomic, has pointed out a number of problems with Coruscant. Food delivery, sewage, waste heat, thermodynamics, farm land/volume, Death of Annoying the Cartoonist.
• Cosy catastrophes including the classic Day of the Triffids
• Day the Earth Stood Still
• Deconstruction related articles for reference: Structuralism, Post-structuralism
• Destroy All Planets
• A Digital Life Scientific American article. Real-time digital recording of experience.
• Empathy in psychotherapy study by Dr. Carl Marci. Social neuroscience. NARSAD Mental Health Research Association Harvard University Gazette Massachussetts General Hospital Vanguard in Action
• Foundation
• Heuristics
• Identity of Indiscernibles. In the TDEC universe, it is definitely the case that two things can be identical and yet not be the same. This includes sapient beings.
• JBR Home Page Justin B Rye's notes on Star Trek, Time Travel, and SF Xenolinguistics.
• Lolita fashion Reference for the character Harmony Brown. Harm's probably not exactly a Lolita girl, but her "too cute for her own good" theme extends to how she dresses.
• Lord of the Rings
• Lost and Found
• Lost in Space
• H.P. Lovecraft and the philosophy of Cosmicism. It's really silly to think that the caperings of the human microbes resident on the dust speck known as "Earth" should have any significance or meaning to the rest of the cosmos.
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology mind reading, intent add or subtract
• Michael Moorcock -- Wikipedia article. Moorcock's Miscellany official site?
• Omega Point note: Wikipedia article is up for deletion. Apparently safe for now.
• Out of the Silent Planet
• Reality: Alternate Reality Game, Simulated Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
• Scientific method See the "see also" links.
• Shakesphere: MacBeth, The Tempest
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Star Wars
• The Tempest
• Theodicy tries to answer "If God is good, why does evil exist?" Important question to the aliens. It would be a good exercise to run through the "Examples" section and work out the aliens' opinion of each example.
• Theory of Everything. TOE (or possible lack thereof) in philosopy. Cosmic Origin of Quantization one attempt to unify gravitation and quantum physics, I think.
• The Thing
• Things to Come
• Transhumanist Terminology
• Unified field theory
• A.E. Van Vogt, The World of Null-A. The aliens make use of non-Aristotelian logic.
• War of the Worlds
• X-Files
  • Review by The Fractal Hall Journal

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