We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where in fact the majority of the intelligence out there is not biological. That would be my argument.
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
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