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There’s a lot of this in evolution. Look into how possibly unlikely the emergence of eukaryotes was. The most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox is just
by api 2y ago
There’s a lot of this in evolution. Look into how possibly unlikely the emergence of eukaryotes was.
The most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox is just that high intelligence is incredibly rare.
Why are we here? Because we are having this conversation over a global digital network. The universe is probably full of bubbling mats of bacteria.
- pfdietz 2y agoWhy is emergence of bacteria not rare? We don't know in sufficient detail how Origin of Life happened to constrain its probability very well.
- mcswell 2y agoWe of course don't know. But I think the claimed evidence is that bacterial life arrived quite early in Earth's history, perhaps a few hundred million years or less after there were permanent basins of water. So the assumption is that it arrived almost as soon as it possibly could (whereas intelligent life (us) took a few billion years longer to show up).