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Gotta be something like "(but it's probably not aliens)", right?
by checkyoursudo 6y ago
Gotta be something like "(but it's probably not aliens)", right?
- rob74 6y agoCould you use "non-biogenic" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biogenic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biogenic) for a thing like radio emissions?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoThat still suggests a _machine race_ could have sent it.
- cercatrova 6y agoWe could define intelligent life as being any of a sapient species, regardless of physical composition. That's helps do away with only carbon-based lifeforms.
- MichaelZuo 6y agoWhat would be the definition of sapience for a machine civilization?
- cercatrova 6y agoSame as for humans. Or a hive mind, or some other type.
- MichaelZuo 6y agoWhich is? Common dictionaries, such as Oxford, state: Sapient 1. Wise, or attempting to appear wise. 2. Relating to the human species. Where 1. wise is defined: Having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgement. Hard to see how that would apply to a hypothetical hive or machine drone civilization with only a single ‘wise’ controller. 2. Clearly not applicable.
- a_t48 6y agoSentience might be a better word.
- cercatrova 6y agoWhy wouldn't 1 work? Basically it's a species that is at least as intelligent as us and can carry out civilization, including scientific and technological progress. It may or may not be sentient as well, see Blindsight for example.
- kjs3 6y agoPerhaps "naturally occurring" would be more clear to the layman. Until proven otherwise.