Doesn't that make us willfully blind to when they might arrive on our terms. This sort of "let's put it aside" thinking led to some dark places in the past, and

Doesn't that make us willfully blind to when they might arrive on our terms. This sort of "let's put it aside" thinking led to some dark places in the past, and we'll eventually come to them again with non-biological complex systems of emergence. I'd personally define it more widely, as I think that's more aligned with reality. It's much more of a gradient than we usually take it for, imho disclaimer: biochemist in a past life