# Fermi Paradox **Domain:** Astrobiology / Technosignatures / Nonhuman Intelligence **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[SETI Institute]], [[Technosignatures]], [[Nonhuman Intelligence]] --- ## Definition The **Fermi paradox** names the tension between arguments that technologically capable life could be common in a vast, old universe and the absence of widely accepted evidence that such civilizations have been detected. ## Corpus Context The paradox turns intelligence into an observational problem. Its possible resolutions depend on longevity, detectability, communication, self-destruction, migration and the substrates through which advanced intelligence might persist. ## Backlinks [[SETI Institute]] · [[Technosignatures]]