RE: Probability of Life - The Automatic Universe Theory
Something occured to me a while ago regarding the composition of life in the universe. The law/principle of accelerating returns sharply divides it into 2 classes.
The 'simple' class consists of life that has almost no ability to control or perceive its environment. Things that equate to microbes are typical members of this class. They have almost no capacity to detect other life that isn't in the same biosphere. They spend an enormous and arbitrarily long amount of time in the first class while evolution slowly ratchets up complexity. We are in this class.
After a critical threshold of complexity and evolutionary advances, members of the first class hit an asymptotic wall and almost instantly transform into the second class. By 'Almost instantly' I mean that relative to the time it took to reach that threshold, the time it takes to cross it to enter other class is a tiny fraction of it. The 'complex' class is characterized by enormous capability to control and perceive its environment. Members of this class have near god-like qualities. Things invert - rather than detection of other life being almost impossible, avoiding detection becomes almost impossible.
I want to stress how sharply the 2 classes are defined and how rare it should be to find life at the border of the dichotomy. There appears to be indication that we are approaching the knee of the acceleration curve.
Yes that is how nature balances out itself, the predator kills the parasite and the parasite kills the predator.
Perhaps things are also not supposed to get too big either, the smaller (least complex) the creature, the shorter it's life and life quality, but there are many of them, so their extinction is almost impossible (viruses, bacteria).
On the other hand, you have more complex beings (not necessarily big, like dinos but more like humans), that have an extremely good life quality, they can do tons of things, but they extend their influence a lot, they piss of eachoher by enslaving eachother and they also piss off the smaller creatures.
And thus we are at a constant war with eachother and while there is not much adaptation there since we humans have a slow evolutionary path, but the smaller creatures that we piss off, certainly adapt quicker and have the potential to destroy us in the end.
For example:
Evolution is an interesting game.
Your reply is not related to my statement.
I have expanded on your position.