Consider that, to a very alien intelligence, humanity could look a lot like von Neumann probes. If we stay on our current technological trajectory without dest

Consider that, to a very alien intelligence, humanity could look a lot like von Neumann probes. If we stay on our current technological trajectory without destroying ourselves, we will spread out into the galaxy, consuming more and more resources in order to produce more copies of ourselves. From a totally alien point of view, we might be as intelligent, conscious, or sapient to them as trees are to us. That is, we might as well be bio-robots. Von Neumann probes.