There is no actual reference

I keep encountering the problem that every imaginary scenario or alternative explanation as to why we are in the dark is based on human concepts. Nothing of our own example proves that it is a rule for potentially other intelligent species.

There is no safe rule of thumb to begin building a theory with any integrity. They can never be anything more than imaginary.

I feel there should be an exception, but I'm not sure it works that way here. Safe assumptions about our own development though, have the potential to serve as a model for what pattern intelligent species generally can exhibit, naturally, even so for extraterrestrial life. If you were to take humanity as a role model, you need to be warned that there is no guarantee that it's always going to be like that. The biggest challenge here is to determine what's possibly not determined by environment - to discover what is a universal trend. Yet, I don't think anyone can tell more. And if they could, they could probably educate me in detail about specific aliens as well.

Which brings me to another train of thought: why isn't there any reference?

What if this given fact(oid) is part of the truth I search answers for? Not the obvious one: there are no aliens; but an obscure one: we're not supposed to know?

A popular, but paranoid thought, one that as far as I can tell almost always leads to obscure and ominous conspiracy theories.

Let's see if I can brighten this up. Let's assume intelligent species are common. This comes with benefits: you'll find ways to survive pretty well and live decently (I'm assuming here that life universally exists if it indeed does survive the conditions it develops in, and ignoring the idea that other dimensions or higher planes, or divine creators planted life as part of an ungraspable scheme).

Then of course it happens all the time, too, and we're very late to the party. So young in fact that even if there was an omniscient presence in our universe that it's probably still processing what's happening here on earth, I mean the universe is pretty big and old, and it's an outright achievement if you'd found us even if you're God.

But life is detectable, and if our planet was detected by beings who came from similar environments as a point of interest, they would have been wise to check back regularly to see if anything had changed in the mean time. The chance, small as it is, that we're already being monitored, I'd say is real. But, it could also be real that aliens who are so at home between the stars have forgotten where they came from, and lost interest in planets altogether.

An exotic theory is that we are actual proof of aliens. Not in the way as I described, that our natural evolution proves that it can happen anywhere (what SETI and NASA base their search for ET on). But that we're in fact not as pure as modern science and Darwinist like to believe. In this case, for which I've no reference to assume it is true, any idea that I'm thinking of as a feeble social construct, a result of fallible human cognition, becomes more acceptable for the potential that it has. It doesn't make it more or less factual, or less human, but certainly less integer. If my brain is the result of tampering or genetic engineering, then my thoughts are not my fault as much as I think. Are they more promising?

Sure, because we're part of the proof those theories need. But they're still empty promises until that proof is found. And just because we can't answer all the question about our biology yet, doesn't mean we're proving that we have alien DNA, or an evolutionary past that was catered by external intelligent design.

When a species encounters us, and potentially they have to an unknown extent, I don't know what to expect. It's not an established fact for anyone.

And if the fact that we don't know, is also the reason we don't know, we're not going to know anytime soon. Because aliens might benefit from us not knowing, and the one thing I feel confident about assuming is that aliens won't make unnecessary mistakes.

And what's more: we might benefit ourselves too, because if we don't want to be defeated by a crushing inferiority complex, we better hope that the invasion or public visitation isn't going to happen. And there are those who know how this feels. See, if there were extra terrestrial species we might even remotely relate to, there is no chance of us meeting them soon. They would be stuck in the same general conditions as us: not knowing (hopefully). Until we step our game up, give or take a thousand years, we're not going to be citizens of the intergalactic society. We're just giant ants on a giant anthill.

Submitted June 14, 2016 at 09:52AM by slowbrowsersarefunny http://ift.tt/1ZO5eMB