Description
– Introduction: Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives. – “The Keen Longing for Unified, All-Embracing Knowledge”: Big History, Cosmic Evolution, and New Research Agendas. – From Planetary Dynamics to Global Trade and Human Genetics: A Big History Narrative. – How Big History Could Change the World for the Better. – Expanding World Views: Can SETI Expand Its Own Horizons and that of Big History Too?. – The Summons of a Silent Universe: The Relationship Between Existential Risk and Cosmic Silence. – The Visibility of Big History. – Re-encountering Signs of Agency: Surveying the Appearance of ‘Layering’ Patterns Within Our Interstellar Messaging Record as Representational Signs for Earth. – COGITO in Space. – The Overview Effect and Well-Being. – The Biological Overview Effect. – Is the Universe Enough? Can It Suffice as a Basis for Worldviews?. – The Universe Decentered: Transcultural Perspectives on Astrobiology and Big History. – “Unfathomable, Bottomless, Very Deep”: Waterworld Imaginaries. – Astrobiology and the Outer Limits of Human Ethics. – Big History and the Significance of the 1969-1972 Apollo Lunar Landings. – Towards a Planetary Polity: The Formation of Global Identity and State Structures. – Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space.
