The Plausibility of Alien Life

Hi, Buzsaw.Being a long-time science fiction writer, I feel somewhat qualified to answer some of your questions. In this case, "higher intelligence" need not be an entity with a better or more efficient brain than ours, or even be built superiorly to us: they need only to have studied longer, harder or with less distraction. No new "type" or "state" of intelligence is needed.I won't say it that a new state of intelligence is impossible, but we don't need to discuss it to consider a being that could travel space.I would personally be more interested in the non-intelligent alien life that we might find. I suspect that non-intelligent life is much more likely to be abundant, and it could really expand our knowledge of biology rapidly.

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Hi, Rrhain. Of course it's not the same thing: because that was them and this is us.Our current understanding of science is infinitely projectable into the future, while the understanding of those before Bernoulli is not.Isn't that the gist of your objection?

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Hi, Agobot. No. What Larni is saying is that a beam of light can bend without any individual photon traveling in a curved path. And, this is clearly true.Why are you talking about this, again?

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