著者

木村 大治 Kimura Daiji

出版者

宇宙航空研究開発機構(JAXA)

雑誌

宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発資料 = JAXA Research and Development Memorandum (ISSN:13491121)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.JAXA-RM-14-012E, pp.45-49, 2015-03-27

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This study considers human contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, the so-called "first contact" in science fiction, from the perspective of anthropology and communication theory. Science fiction has performed various thought experiments regarding whether and how mutual understanding is realized in such human-alien interaction circumstances. First contact can be classified into two categories: the scaffold for understanding based on rationality and objective truth, or on embodiment and internal understanding. Finally, we discuss the existence of another layer that we call the "stance of understanding," namely, the belief that "they must be trying to communicate."