Comments on: 188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like

By: Howard Gary

Howard Gary — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 02:24:49 +0000

Listening to the interview with Arik Kershenbaum he seems to be implying that competition (even conflict), as well as cooperation between members of different species, as well as members of their own species, played an important role in the evolution of intelligent life here an Earth, and that the same would apply to life anywhere in the Universe. It reminds me of the line from the movie ‘The Third Man’
“In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did they produce? The Cuckoo clock.”

By: Brian Whit

Brian Whit — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:17:02 +0000

What if?
If life exists and communicates, for whatever reason, across parsecs, would there not be ample evidence, and evidence we do not recognize, at a timescale, of sub-picoseconds or 10,000 years for a sentence?
What if?
If entanglement were upscaled, from photons to moon sizes, and two civilizations 50 light years apart exchange entangled matter, and after the matter arrives, they assemble real-time communication with quintillion sized entangled particles?
What if?
If we just learned how to shift photons polarity wise, why not a dense communication stream sent out, broadcast, on modified pulses within the pulses of a pulsar?
Advanced life exists, and has no interest in a suicidal apex predator like Homo sapiens.
Additionally, defining what constitutes intelligence, acting versus ‘talking about acting’, would never be recognized.
What about a sentient galaxy? a sub atomic sentience? There is much more we don’t see/know, and that will hold true for the next millennia. Hubris, thy name is Human.

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