What if the Great Filter isn't a wall but a calibrated governor keeping the universe quiet?
I just released a paper that offers a new answer to the Fermi Paradox.
Instead of a single catastrophic event, it proposes the Filter is an ongoing, self-regulating process. Civilizations must maintain cooperative order at the exact scale their technology demands, or they fail. The logic shows why silence is not just likely, it is expected.
It connects cancer biology, dysfunctional organizations, civilizational collapse risks, and cosmology into one framework. There is also a plain-language version and a companion paper that translates core Buddhist practice into thermodynamic systems theory (the bottom-up survival route).
Full set here: https://calibratedfilter.org
Would genuinely love sharp criticism from this community.
u/DigAdministrative114 — 8 hours ago