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Very interesting. I'm going to have to ponder on that one. I agree that goals 'beyond our biology' are, quite basically, rooted IN THAT biology. We can never t
by bradleysmith 12y ago
Very interesting. I'm going to have to ponder on that one.
I agree that goals 'beyond our biology' are, quite basically, rooted IN THAT biology. We can never trust our perception to be anything other than a reflection of that biology, so I see your point.
>Would they have trade or commerce or families or anything we would recognize?
using different language, maybe. They WOULD have resource transmission and interactions, methods of managing scarcity, and methods of categorizing and identifying individual nodes in their system.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoIts a fun game to imagine 10 commandments for alien races. E.g. Thou Shalt Kill thy Father, Mother and CoProgenitors for a race that eats their ancestors to process their neurological tissue and preserve their knowledge and personalities.