The Great Silence by Ted Chiang
A philosophically framed monologue spoken by an endangered parrot that contrasts humanity’s frantic search for extraterrestrial signals with its indifference to nonhuman minds on Earth. The narrator points out the irony of using powerful instruments to listen to the cosmos while simultaneously silencing or exterminating intelligent species nearby, and interrogates assumptions about what counts as communication. The piece reframes the so‑called great silence not only as a cosmic puzzle but as a moral failure to hear and care for the intelligences already among us.
- Published
- 2015
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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