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But that's mostly because humans aren't an achievement of "life". We were never a development goal of "life" nor does the universe care very much about us - eve
by neuronic 8y ago
But that's mostly because humans aren't an achievement of "life". We were never a development goal of "life" nor does the universe care very much about us - even if we built megastructures directly harnessing the energy of black holes and stars.
If current knowledge is remotely correct, heat death will happen, no matter how immortal Homo deus will become. The quarks are against us.
And if complex systems theory teaches us anything then it would be preposterous to assume any ultimate superiority in understanding the universe on our part.
Who knows who wrote crazy alien versions of Hacker News posts 2 billion years ago in one of the other couple of thousands of galaxies seen in Hubble Deep Field alone...
- quietbritishjim 8y agoHumans are really just an example, I regret mentioning it. All significant developments in life (e.g. multi-cellular lifeforms, post-Cumbrian explosian animals) took hundreds of millions to billions of years.
- kamaal 8y agoIn fact given the fact evolution is a process without a goal. Intelligence could be even more rare among multicellular lifeforms.
- Brockenstein 8y agoOr the consequence of great intelligence is an evolutionary dead end. What if intelligent life becomes smart enough to destroy itself, but doesn't survive quite long enough to use that intelligence to save itself.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoI remember reading that 4 or 5 intelligent hominids coexisted in Africa a million years ago. More or less intelligent. It can't be that rare then. In fact, dolphins. Octopi. Yeah, pretty much a given I'd imagine, in the right complex ecosystem, that intelligence is a thing.
- nickwalton00 8y agoEverything has some level of intelligence, but the intelligence to develop tools and civilization beyond tribes and sticks is something else.