I don't understand why you wrote "no" when I referenced philosophers. Are you saying every idea in your post was an original thought to yourself, and you weren

I don't understand why you wrote "no" when I referenced philosophers. Are you saying every idea in your post was an original thought to yourself, and you weren't repeating someone else's ideas without attribution? If so, congratulations, you recreated some interesting ideas, but they shouldn't hard to rebut, as others have already done it. You are free to accept the rebuttal as correct or not correct, but you seem to be frustratingly confusing philosophical arguments with facts. Let's break down what you wrote: "Observer selection bias makes our own existence entirely irrelevant to the question of whether there are other intelligences out there." This is not a "fact" but a philosophical claim about how to account for observer selection bias. Your proposed solution appears to be to shut down all discussion of the topic of what the existence of humanity tells us about the likelihood of alien life. You also wrote: "The firing squad example there has other prior information that we lack when it comes to understanding our own existence." This is not a factual statement but rather a philosophical claim that the entire fields of biology and astronomy contain no relevant "other prior information" as to our understanding of our existence.