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Intelligent Life Really Can’t Exist Anywhere Else
getpocket.com ^ | 7.2.22 | Caroline Delbert

Posted on 07/02/2022 4:17:30 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Intelligent Life Really Can’t Exist Anywhere Else

Hell, our own evolution on Earth was pure luck.

In research published in 2020 from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, scientists study the likelihood of key times for evolution of life on Earth and conclude that it would be virtually impossible for that life to evolve the same way somewhere else.

Life has come a very long way in a very short time on Earth, relatively speaking—and scientists say that represents even more improbable luck for intelligent life that is rare to begin with.

For decades, scientists and even philosophers have chased many explanations for the Fermi paradox. How, in an infinitely big universe, can we be the only intelligent life we’ve ever encountered? Even on Earth itself, they wonder, how are we the only species that ever has evolved advanced intelligence?

There are countless naturally occurring, but extremely lucky ways in which Earth is special, sheltered, protected, and encouraged to have evolved life. And some key moments of emerging life seem much more likely than others, based on what really did happen.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carolinedelbert; chat; evolution; excathedra; exobiology; fakescience; fermiparadox; god; limitinggod; moron; morons; nonsense; ntsa; popularmechanics; rareearth; rareearthbs; science; sezyou; ufo; ufos; xplanets
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To: Vaduz

“What do you think creates evolution.”

When you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers.

The correct question is:

“What do you think creates intelligence.”

My answer to that question:

Intelligence comes in many different varieties—and humans know very little of almost all of them.

It appears that intelligence is an attribute of the universe itself and may appear in a virtually infinite number of forms.

Evolution is a red herring.


81 posted on 07/03/2022 9:43:47 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

How did we get here if not.

What do you think creates evolution


82 posted on 07/03/2022 9:45:26 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Vaduz

“How did we get here if not.”

The question itself is very confusing and misleading.

You should be asking how we became conscious or how any beings might become conscious.

“Consciousness” is what matters, whether here or elsewhere.

Evolution tells us nothing about consciousness—that is why it is a red herring.


83 posted on 07/03/2022 9:50:10 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

Wouldn’t we have to get here in the first place, with the all the physical attributes that we have, to become ‘conscious’?


84 posted on 07/03/2022 1:11:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Think of computer hardware and software.

Both are necessary for the computers to “work” but neither works just by themselves.

Understanding just the computer or just the software explains nothing.

“Science” studies just the hardware.

Whether the computer and software are “here” or somewhere else is another red herring.


85 posted on 07/03/2022 4:53:18 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

I guess I really don’t understand your argument.

I don’t buy the notion that consciousness is merely a product of the brain; and I believe that other animals may have some degree or type of ‘consciousness’.

But the Human is the one that appears to have developed to the point, and with the capabilities, that we have. And unless you believe that we were created out of ‘whole cloth’ à la Genesis, how do you believe we got here, and developed to the state that we exhibit today?


86 posted on 07/03/2022 7:39:34 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

“how do you believe we got here, and developed to the state that we exhibit today?”

My answer is one that everyone will hate.

We have no &^%$ing clue.

Humans are much dumber than they think they are.


87 posted on 07/04/2022 7:34:04 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sliders?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112167/


88 posted on 07/04/2022 7:38:35 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: cgbg

You require more reading on a few things you have a lot to learn.


89 posted on 07/04/2022 8:16:14 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

90 posted on 07/04/2022 12:58:48 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: marktwain

“This seems a pretty good argument for creation...”

Agreed.

After all, is there really any difference between a miracle, on one hand; and a series of astronomically improbable events leading to the beginning of life, on the other hand?


91 posted on 07/04/2022 6:50:21 PM PDT by cygnet (Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit ...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Perhaps they see it but fail to recognize it.


92 posted on 07/13/2022 6:46:59 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Jamestown1630

One theory is that the brain is an antenna and consciousness exists outside the brain in another dimension. Consciousness is a type of magnetic field generated similarly as a signal is transmitted from a radio tower.

The question then becomes…is the brain sending or receiving? If it is receiving, then from where does the energy originate? If it is sending, then to where and to what is it sending.


93 posted on 07/30/2022 10:44:52 PM PDT by 1forest1 (The Constitution is just a relic in a glass case)
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To: 1forest1

I don’t know - it’s over my head :-)

It has just made intuitive sense to me that consciousness is really ‘out there’, not ‘in here’.


94 posted on 07/31/2022 12:14:26 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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