Solaris
[Russian: Солярис] [related: Panpsychism, DASST]
Science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky released in 1972 dealing rooted in panpsychism [1] as evidenced by the eponymous central character, a sentient ocean planet capable of rendering the private desires of astronauts as material hallucinations via the manipulation of neutrino systems. A crew in orbit above the planet is plagued by these spectral visages. The film's central protagonist, a psychologist named Kris Kelvin, is driven mad by the repeated visitations of his ex-lover Hari. Late in the film, the replica drinks liquid oxygen, mirroring Hari's death by suicide ten years preceding - only to be painfully resurrected by the planet, its intentions unknown.
In metaphysical circles, Solaris is seen to support the Discrete Alien Semanical System Theory (DASST) stating that the composition and functionality of any "alien" organism would be sufficiently foreign and completely isolated from our own systems of interaction. Without any direct particle entanglement or similar perceptual system any corresponding semantical systems between entities would essentially be invisible and completely inaccessible, thus the development of conduits of communication with alternate life forms is essentially impossible. The DASST is founded upon the Buddhist/quantum principle of all-pervasiveness of mind (i.e. the mind as the locus point of reality), emergent phenomena/causality, and the inherent "emptiness" of all things. On this basis, it stands to reason that alien life systems may be plentiful (perhaps infinitely plentiful) throughout the universe, even within our own solar system, yet completely undetectable because their atomic configuration either appears to us random [Newtonian Interpretation] or their collective wave function lacks any entanglement with ours [Quantum Interpretation]. Furthermore, it could be then extrapolated that "death" is simply the transition to another discrete semantical system/wave function via the exiting of corporeal form and that sentient human life continues in what amounts to be a parallel yet inaccessible universe (heaven/hell).
"We don't need other worlds, we need only mirrors."
- href#[redacted] :: My Void, My Famine: Exploring the Extraterrestrial Implications of Discrete Alien Semantical System Theory.
- ↑ The belief that all matter/energy contains grains of consciousness and experiences some form of qualia. Said consciousness can take on a myriad of different forms in accordance with different neurological AKA processing systems.