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The problem with this reasoning is that it considers this to be true: if intelligent life exists, we are gonna be able to understand its intelligence. What if

The problem with this reasoning is that it considers this to be true: if intelligent life exists, we are gonna be able to understand its intelligence. What if there exist an intelligent life, so intelligent that their level of intelligence compared to ours is like comparing ours with...cats. We all know small genetic mutations can have huge impact. So huge they might just be technically/biologically out of reach. So maybe an intelligent life exists out there, but they are so ahead of us that we are not even capable of understanding how. Like a little cat watching a car thinking maybe it's an animal.

kposehn 11y ago
> So maybe an intelligent life exists out there, but they are so ahead of us that we are not even capable of understanding how. Like a little cat watching a car thinking maybe it's an animal. So true. We are really bad at looking at things outside the lens of our own experience. Why would life evolve in exactly the same fashion? Would it even have DNA as we know it? There is life that could form in ways we cannot even perceive - intelligence of a type that is so completely alien that neither could every notice or understand the other. The universe may simply be filled with life, but because it evolves so differently it may simply be impossible to see most of it.