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Similar discussion from some time ago: [0]. TL;DR a galaxy is too big for letting any sort of meaningful intelligence develop. The latency of signals would seve
by muxator 9y ago
Similar discussion from some time ago: [0].
TL;DR a galaxy is too big for letting any sort of meaningful intelligence develop. The latency of signals would severely limit the complexity of the "brain".
Edit: moreover, on a less serious stance, there is always [1], which reassures us that the answer to such a question would inevitably be "no", when the question is posed as part of an headline.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395585
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
- corpMaverick 9y ago>> Latency... That shouldn't be a problem if the quantum particles are entangled. right? >> which reassures us that the answer to such a question would inevitably be "no The Universe doesn't care about such laws ;)
- bcherny 9y agoYou still can't move information faster than light.
- singularity2001 9y agounless maybe you are super intlligent and found new physics
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- d0lph 9y agoCurious about this, is there some sort of study I can read?
- bcherny 9y agoI am not a physicist, but as I understand it this is a basic law of physics, and is a consequence of relativity. > It is not possible, however, to use this effect to transmit classical information at faster-than-light speeds [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
- indubitable 9y agoOctopuses are an interesting argument against this view. Octopuses do not directly control their own arms. And their arms even have reflex reactions completely independent of their brain. In other words, it may be that nature itself discovered centralization is a pretty bad idea beyond a certain scale.
- teddyh 9y agoIn other words, the universe is Cthulhu?
- singularity2001 9y agoI am sure you are aware of the paradoxical article "are stories that have a question mark in their title always wrong?"
- muxator 9y agono.
- Balgair 9y agoTo be fair, this is with our current understanding of physics. The SoL barrier is VERY unlikely to be 'broken', however, more interesting things may crop up. I mean, 'dark matter' is ~20% of the universe and all we really know about it is that it falls down. Then you have 'dark energy' which makes up ~70% of the universe and all we know about it is that it makes other things not fall down (maybe). There is a whole heck of a lot of physics out there still so I think calling a galaxy-wide intelligence impossible is premature (let alone the debate over what 'intelligence' is counted as).
- uoaei 9y agoThis is a very anthropocentric view of intelligence. What's to say that the universe doesn't simply operate on vastly different timescales?