Astrobiology: Between the Science of Life and the Crisis of Anthropocentrism

This text attempts to define astrobiology not as a technical curiosity, but as a fundamental shift in human perception of reality. The authors argue that this science, through the study of exoplanets, extremophiles, and prebiotic processes, represents the final blow to anthropocentrism. The article juxtaposes practical research methods, such as atmospheric spectroscopy and the transit method, with profound epistemological reflection on the nature of life and entropy. Astrobiology is presented here as a liminal discipline, forcing us to transcend the earthly perspective and attempt to understand existence on a macro scale. It is an intellectual quest in which the human mind ceases to be a local administrator of affairs and becomes a conscious observer of the universe, testing the definitional boundaries of matter and biology in search of answers to the question of the uniqueness of our existence.