We will probably never discover (intelligent) alien life because we’d most likely just end up looking right past it without even noticing it.
What we define as advanced life is based on our human standards of “advancement.” There could be alien life more “intelligent/advanced” than us, but with no desire to explore the cosmos, create civilizations, or even contact us.
And maybe alien life would be so different than terrestrial life that we wouldn’t even recognize each other if we did come face to face. A super-intelligent alien might just appear to us as an amorphous blob or a cloud of dust. Likewise, a human civilization might just appear to an ET as a layer of dirty mold growing on an otherwise green planet.
We send radio waves out into space hoping for intelligent life to communicate back with us, but why would it? What if the signals we beam out as we try to communicate with aliens are just picked up on their end as “pretty background noise” the same way that birds calling to each other just sounds like pretty and meaningless noises to us.
What if an entire solar system is a super-intelligent being that communicates with other ones. We might only think our solar system is lifeless because we are each just a microscopic piece of the entire being, just like the cells that make up your body aren’t aware of the entirety of you, because they’re each just a small piece of your organism.
There could be a sentient being that isn’t even a living thing. If we wish to communicate with other sentience, we might need to think way outside the box and drastically reevaluate what really constitutes as “life, intelligence, advanced, etc.”
Submitted February 19, 2022 at 04:50AM by Gone_gone_broken https://ift.tt/ZC81skO
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