Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
From nautil.us
erhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be indistinguishable from magic. If you dropped in on a bunch of Paleolithic farmers with your iPhone and a pair of sneakers, you’d undoubtedly seem pretty magical. But the contrast is only middling: The farmers would still recognize you as basically like them, and before long they’d be taking selfies. But what if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?Read more: http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/is-physical-law-an-alien-intelligenceAfter all, if the cosmos holds other life, and if some of that life has evolved beyond our own waypoints of complexity and technology, we should be considering some very extreme possibilities. Today’s futurists and believers in a machine “singularity” predict that life and its technological baggage might end up so beyond our ken that we wouldn’t even realize we were staring at it. That’s quite a claim, yet it would neatly explain why we have yet to see advanced intelligence in the cosmos around us, despite the sheer number of planets it could have arisen on—the so-called Fermi Paradox.
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It's possible. I believe there are some aliens out in the universe. I mean it's just too big not to have someone, somewhere. I do hope that when/if they ever do visit, they are highly intelligent and VERY friendly.
My only worry is that if we possess valuable and finite resources. I think the friendliness of aliens will ultimately come down to the scarceness or bountifulness of resources.
Like in the movies. For example Battleship and Battle Los Angeles. Maybe that could happen. I suppose all we can really do is wait and see.
Just smoked a bowl,and I have often pondered that there are conscience electrical beings... well beyond our limited vision spectrum,and higher dimensions.
life can be stranger than fiction.
;-)
namaste