To Find Alien Intelligence, Start With the Mountains
We would argue that this suggests three things about the entities that SETI searches could reveal:
They will not be organic or biological.
They will not remain on the surface of the planet where their biological precursors lived.
We will not be able to fathom their motives or intentions.
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They will not be organic or biological.
They will not remain on the surface of the planet where their biological precursors lived.
We will not be able to fathom their motives or intentions.
This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed... See more
Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It
A recent theory of consciousness posits that intelligent awareness can emerge when the components of a large system have a certain level of interconnectivity. Neurons in the human brain reach the critical threshold. In the presence of these chattering cobbles, it seems obvious to me that, according to that definition, Earth is hyperconscious.