12 Nov
2015
12 Nov
'15
3:06 p.m.
| | Assuming all sentient life evolves along the same basic trajectory as | ours, they will probably seek some answers to these many questions | through experiences they can relate to. But their experiences will | never provide meaningful frames of reference. | On the above narrow point, see Robin Hanson's "The Great Filter" http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter Or, more broadly, Ward & Brownlee's 2000 book _Rare Earth_, such as the discussion at http://tal.forum2.org/rare --dan