> What if some virus evolved to work super intelligently as a hive mind? I'd say that this would make that Hive organism look a lot like a macro-organism. > .

> What if some virus evolved to work super intelligently as a hive mind? I'd say that this would make that Hive organism look a lot like a macro-organism. > ... in 1000 years we (assuming we are still recognizably human) will look back at our understanding of reality right now as nearly completely wrong. So let's take gravity as an example. Newton proposed his laws ~350 years ago. Newton's laws are a pretty good approximation. Of course, Einstein improved on this with special/general relativity but... Newton's laws are still mostly correct. Classical and relativistic models only really diverge in extreme circumstances. That's a long time to be mostly correct without a massive revision. > This makes a lot of assumptions, including that intelligent species don't accelerate quickly into something unrecognizable as they evolve to more advancement Yeah, there's a whole lot discussion about this as a possible answer to the Fermi Paradox. The idea has a problem though: ultimately civilizations are bound by how much mass and energy they have access to. If they aren't, this breaks thermodynamics. So in a universe where this is limited, it will be an advantage for a civilization to hoard as much as possible for the long term. That sort of thing would tend to be... noticeable. The other is that it isn't limited. If that's the case it really creates more problems than it solves. Basically life in the Universe should be even more prevalent and thus visible.