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Author Topic:   Detecting Intelligence - SETI and ID Compared
New Cat's Eye
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Message 9 of 46 (644943)
12-21-2011 4:51 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by jar
12-21-2011 4:41 PM


Can we even recognize intelligence that is quite different than our own?
Are you talking about the ID crowd?

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 28 of 46 (645035)
12-22-2011 2:59 PM
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12-21-2011 5:53 PM


My question is could it detect something as being intelligent if the other thing was totally alien to our current technology?
No.
Is SETI defining intelligence as "just like us"?
Yes.
So?

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 30 of 46 (645037)
12-22-2011 3:07 PM
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12-22-2011 3:03 PM


"They're not looking for round red fruit, they're looking for apples".
A "technology like what we use" would require intelligence, so they are looking for signs of intelligence, its just that there looking for a subset of all that which could be called intelligence.
But that doesn't mean they're not looking for intelligence at all.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 32 of 46 (645039)
12-22-2011 3:20 PM
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12-22-2011 3:10 PM


It sounds like you're trying to say that they're not really looking for intelligence.
Why do you think there's controversy over what you're saying if its something so simple?
Your questioning can be a bit cryptic...

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