# SETI Institute **Domain:** Astrobiology / Technosignatures / Nonhuman Intelligence **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Nonhuman Intelligence]], [[Technosignatures]], [[Fermi Paradox]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **SETI Institute** is a nonprofit research organization studying life and intelligence in the universe through astrobiology, planetary science and the search for technosignatures. ## Corpus Context SETI enlarges the ontology of intelligence beyond Earth and beyond human embodiment. It asks what evidence intelligence leaves in matter, energy, communication and planetary environments. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "If our future is to be long and prosperous, then we need to develop artificial intelligence systems, in the hope to transcend the planetary lifecycles in some sort of hybrid form of biology and machine." > **— Dimitar D. Sasselov**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Space Survival/Hybrid Intelligence Could Outlive Planetary Lifecycles by Dimitar D. Sasselov|Hybrid Intelligence Could Outlive Planetary Lifecycles by Dimitar D. Sasselov]] > "Rather than machines that think, I believe we are migrating toward a networked environment in which thinking is no longer a individual activity, nor bound by time and space." > **— Douglas Rushkoff**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Digital Life/Intelligence Is Migrating Into a Networked Environment by Douglas Rushkoff|Intelligence Is Migrating Into a Networked Environment by Douglas Rushkoff]] > "The advantages for space exploration are obvious: machines we build don't have to breathe, and they can withstand extreme temperatures and radiation environments." > **— John C. Mather**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Space Survival/Machines Can Survive Where Humans Cannot by John C. Mather|Machines Can Survive Where Humans Cannot by John C. Mather]] > "Consequently, if life on exoplanets is not extremely uncommon, we could discover some form of extrasolar life within about 30 years." > **— Mario Livio**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Space Survival/We May Discover Extrasolar Life Within Thirty Years by Mario Livio|We May Discover Extrasolar Life Within Thirty Years by Mario Livio]] > “What will it take for us to be fully confident that we have found life elsewhere in the cosmos?” > **— Carolyn Porco**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* [[reminders/Information/How Can We Know That We Found Life Elsewhere by Carolyn Porco|How Can We Know That We Found Life Elsewhere by Carolyn Porco]] ## Sources / Provenance - [SETI Institute](https://www.seti.org/) ## Relationships - **Edge source and reminder relationship:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] records the original Edge Annual Question responses; the source-checked quotations below route to their individual reminders and back to this topic.