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| Voltaire Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton (1738) |
After watching Ancient Aliens, I am perplexed by human beings constantly calling “aliens” as such as well as E.T.’s, as in extraterrestrial. So, my proposal is to rename such entities as H.I.’s, acronym for Higher Intelligence and meanwhile saying “Hello” to new beings on the outskirts of our global village. I’d also consider Intergalactic beings (I.G.B.’s) or Celestial Entities (C.E.’s) over aliens as the etymology of alien is from the 14th century meaning “strange or foreign”.
Our own government (who denies such space entities exist) considers others who are not U.S. citizens or naturalized citizens as aliens. It begs to differ than why and what are we doing calling the outer space community or living forces from space as an object in a name that is exclusionary. In the word, “extraterrestrial” it may not be as far off the mark with the word, extra and then terrestrial. Oddly, with the review of the show Ancient Aliens, it must be said that the definition of the E.T. is extra meaning by definition is speculated from the word extraordinary. Therefore, terrestrial from 15th century means earthly opposed to celestial and from 1590s meaning a human being, mortal.
Let’s suffice it to say that we borrow a term from 1796 with Immanuel Kant’s noumenon, meaning object of intellectual intuition. Kant was a transcendentalist who was a philosopher during the Enlightenment era, along with John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume. These men developed the science known as epistemology, which is the theory of knowledge. In addition, the term noumenon is also considered an object or events only known to the mind, independent of the senses. The term deals with human inquiry, understanding and cognition. It is also simple known as the thing in itself.
