I have been raised extremely religious and I completely understand obsession by the search for alien life. In some way it would "ground" at once my entire strug

I have been raised extremely religious and I completely understand obsession by the search for alien life. In some way it would "ground" at once my entire struggle to get out of this (human) religion. Sure, you can imagine an adapted religion cross the universe with multiple Jesuses etc., but it's much less convincing than the original. Actually, the reason I'm so interested in artificial general intelligence is, I think, driven by the same reasons. If we can create fellow human beings, it somehow is like creating your own aliens on earth. That, and the idea that we need them to solve the tough problem we nowadays face as mankind.