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Originally Posted by GGG
It’s not just as likely that our technology is leading the universe unless their are only two life forms out there. Us and the Aliens. As soon as you allow for life to exist elsewhere you would get a bell curve of technological achievement centred around the maximum life creating point in the universe. We are far more likely to be in the middle standard deviation then the outliers and when you look at the age of the universe relative to the age of our sun we would be likely not be at forefront.
I think the most likely answer is we are separated temporally and spacialy such that there is never meaningful contact.
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Sure it is. Your conclusions and hypothesis is just based on wild assumptions, so it’s not like it’s any more likely.
You don’t have to look beyond our planet to see humans buck the trend. Out of millions of species, we’re the most advanced form of life by an incredibly wide margin. Nothing else comes close, again, out of
millions of species. You could make the logical argument that a monkey is relatively close compared to a plant, but the gap is still very large.
You also make the same assumptions believers usually make beyond the simple “life exists elsewhere” which is that:
1. life exists with motivations/interests similar to humans (space exploration, scientific observation, advanced invention)
2. life exists with a combination of physical and mental characteristics similar to humans (imagination/curious combined with the physical ability to create)
3. advanced life exists on planets with raw materials conducive to creating advanced technology
4. Advanced life exists on planets that are not only capable of supporting life, but capable of maintaining it without disruption (species or natural occurrence-based) long enough that a species can advance far enough along
5. Life exists that follows the same (or improved) rules of evolution that Earth does and includes species with the same (or improved) potential as humans have.
All of these things might be true. But they aren’t
likely to be true, and your assumption of us being merely average fails without them all being true many, many times over.
You could just as easily say every form of life above us in the universe is a carbon-based blob where travel is completely inessential so all of their advanced intelligence goes into inventing more comfortable, stationary blob lives. Just because there might be more intelligent life out there, doesn’t mean there’s better technology and life that has the same outward interests we do.