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The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective
Clement Vidal
Where does it all come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? What is good and what is evil? The scientific narrative of cosmic evolution demands that we tackle su…
Artificial Cosmogenesis: A New Kind of Cosmology
Clement Vidal
This paper introduces foundations for a new kind of cosmology. We advocate that computer simulations are needed to address two key cosmological issues. First, the robustness of the…
Black Holes: Attractors for Intelligence?
Clement Vidal
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has so far been unsuccessful and needs additional methods. We introduce a two-dimensional metric for civilization development,…
Computational and Biological Analogies for Understanding Fine-Tuned Parameters in Physics
Clement Vidal
In this philosophical paper, we explore computational and biological analogies to address the fine-tuning problem in cosmology. We first clarify what it means for physical constant…
The Evolution and Development of the Universe
Clement Vidal, Charles Auffray, Alex H. Blin +19
This document is the Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008). Please refer to the preface and introduction f…