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First on earth out of billions of species. That was my hole point... I edited it to make it clearer.
by sktrdie 10y ago
First on earth out of billions of species. That was my hole point... I edited it to make it clearer.
- coldtea 10y ago>First on earth out of billions of species That's par for the course. That's how evolution works. And we're also gonna be the last on earth (we or our evolved successors), because we have the evolutionary upper hand. But that doesn't say much for other planets. We expect them too to have billions of species and a race to produce an intelligent being too.
- sktrdie 10y agoWhy compare stuff happening elsewhere that you don't know about (other planets) when you can compare stuff that you know about (here on earth?). My point is that intelligent life as defined above seems not to be a certain development of evolution. I showcased the evidence for that. You seem to think that it is, but you didn't argue why - other than "it happens so it will for sure on other planets as well". There are tons of other traits that are singular in the evolutionary tree, simply because they didn't stick for whatever reason. If intelligence was as common as binocular eyesight, say, then we'd see it appearing in all kinds of very different species.
- meric 10y agoIf we better understand how other species on Earth communicate, dolphins, elephants, other primates, and they show interest in our technology, and finally they build their own radios suitable for their own use, will that be enough to show you there is greater probability for intelligent life?
- XorNot 10y agoAlso only 121 years old. Radio is a very recent phenomena on Earth.