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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Will it be possible for intelligent life to survive the heat

Cognosium
Posted: 17 Nov 2012, 8:25 pm 

Replies: 18
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We can speculate that perhaps future non-biological cognitive entities might escape from the domain of the observed universe into another, quite different entity. While, like all of the various "multiverse" theories there is not a shred of evidence for this, it is at least consistent with an extrapo...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Are humans the most intelligent life in the universe?

Cognosium
Posted: 29 Aug 2012, 5:48 pm 

Replies: 78
Views: 59,747
To address a few of the points arising in this discussion: In the absence of direct evidence it is impossible to be sure of life other than on this planet. However, our observations of evolutionary patterns and constraints are strongly suggestive of an underlying universal structure such that direct...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Are humans the most intelligent life in the universe?

Cognosium
Posted: 21 Aug 2012, 5:30 pm 

Replies: 78
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Unfortunately, as pointed out by others here, we just don't have sufficient data to resolve issues of the kind presented by the Drake equation. The computer-guy acronym GIGO - garbage in- garbage out captures the impossibility of arriving at meaningful estimates of probability in this way. There is ...
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