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Right now there is a lot of active search for life based on the habitable zone theory. I also think that we should open up our ideas. We might find something of
by teknopaul 6y ago
Right now there is a lot of active search for life based on the habitable zone theory. I also think that we should open up our ideas. We might find something of intellect and of interest closer than 17000 light years. If nearest carbon based life if so far there is not much to be learned. If we can find even a mildly interesting self supporting system in our own solar system we may not be able to play golf but we might be able to communicate and learn.
I also think we are foolish to not look for intelligence on earth. We killed off the neanderthals. There is more hope of bringing them back and asking for an opinion than finding little green men.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoWe might indeed find something of intellect closer! It would indeed be interesting! It is not, however, something we have reason to expect would be particularly probable. I am unsure what variety of "opinion" you hope to extract from your hypothetical Neanderthal, and take the opportunity to note that, as social mammals with large and adaptable brains, the opinion systems of intelligent hominids are substantially shaped by their upbringing and how they relate to the society around them, particularly as regards the more complex systems of thought.