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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
What many people think are uniquely human qualities, and just adaptations that helped us survive, no different than developing the ability to think ahead and plan. Things like communication and cooperative offered survival advantages (as they do in most of the animal world on Earth). Those things led to the social structures, which led to the arts and tool making, and eventually that led to scientific advancement. Obviously intelligent aliens would have started off as primitive life forms like us and would have followed some evolutionary path to became an advanced civilization with numerous steps in between. It is human arrogance to think those steps in between that humans experienced are uniquely human qualities and not just evolutionary traits that would be common things to develop in any highly intelligent species because they offer survival advantages.
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Isn’t it equally a case of human arrogance to assume that our version of “intelligence” or the qualities we place high value on hold any value across all of time and space? That our trajectory as a species is even remotely close to the trajectory other “intelligent” species would follow?
Why do we presume that alien life has similar survival challenges, similar environments, and similar evolutionary paths to the point where we would even recognize their advancements, or they would recognize ours?
It’s entirely possible that our species’ limited ability to travel in space is a gift, as if we could, there’d be nothing an alien species could do to stop us. Would they even recognize aggression? Would they have had any need at all to understand or develop the means of destroying anything else?