This article proposes the hypothesis of exocivilizatiogenesis — one of the possible scenarios for the origin of technological civilization. The classification of scenarios is based on a single criterion: the source of the triggering impulse. Two types are distinguished: endogenous (the impulse originates from the population itself or from non-intelligent external events) and exogenous (the impulse originates from an external intelligent extraterrestrial civilization). The work focuses on the exogenous type. Within this type, only one subtype is considered: a single act of intervention with the transmission of trigger technologies, subsequent self-development, and the absence of further contact. The study is limited to the first act — the moment of transition from a pre-civilizational state to civilization. Questions of further existence, expansion, degradation, or the transfer of the baton (the “second act”) are deliberately excluded. The main postulates of the hypothesis are formulated: an external source of development, induction of integration, absence of cascading continuity, and invasiveness as a consequence rather than a goal. A four-phase model of exocivilizatiogenesis is proposed: discovery and assessment, targeted intervention, launch of self-development, and absence of further contact. Avenues for empirical verification are outlined: archaeological analysis, comparative study of ancient cultures, search for astroarchaeological artifacts, analysis of genetic and paleontological data, and modeling of intervention scenarios. The hypothesis does not assert that earthly civilization arose in this manner. It is proposed as one element of a typology of possible scenarios of civilizational genesis in the Universe.
Alexander Yourievitch Kotelnikov (Mon,) studied this question.