Well you work with the data and evidence you have and make conclusions based on it. You could start hypothesizing about "higher" intelligence and infinite dimen

Well you work with the data and evidence you have and make conclusions based on it. You could start hypothesizing about "higher" intelligence and infinite dimensions all you want but if you have no way to measure or detect those things it's not worth much and well.. your approaching SciFi territory at that point. Starting with simpler methods is not really a choice since there are no other options. > lack of understanding "Simplistic" understanding based on primitive evidence is still better than seeing "infinite dimensions" without any data to back it up. It's not obvious that any higher beings (compared to humans) even exist, they might they might not. So maybe we should focus on detecting any signs of any kind of intelligence or life in the first place (after even a bug should be able to tell a human apart from a rock when it bumps into one?).