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That's anthropomorphism to almost religious levels. I doubt you'd have the same drives and incentives as humans at such level of development.
by reader_mode 6y ago
That's anthropomorphism to almost religious levels. I doubt you'd have the same drives and incentives as humans at such level of development.
- maybelsyrup 6y agoYes, it's "anthropomorphism". It's an analogy.
- CptFribble 6y agoThat's my point - I usually see talk of aliens dismissed with "if they're so advanced, why would they bother? Therefore it must be something else." We cast our own human drives and incentives on the aliens in that case. Similarly, a gorilla may stand on a mountain and look up at a plane, and think "if they're so advanced, why bother bringing that thing to my mountain? It must be an optical illusion." The gorilla doesn't understand the plane's purpose, design, or usage, yet dismisses it anyway based on a limited mental model of the universe. It's an imperfect analogy, but it's meant to show that while we all dismiss the concept of aliens because we can't fathom why an advanced race would use their technology just to visit a "lower" species, we actually do the same thing all the time - so maybe it's not as far outside the realm of possibility as we think.
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