But that’s only one scenario, and this hypothesis assumes a natural progression to evolutionary processes, and thus the development of intelligent life.
Evolution is entirely random, and you really just need one mutant to survive and propagate enough to create a line from its original mutation. If that mutation, or collection of such effects, results in greater than human intelligence at any point in time, then there’s no reason to assume that other intelligent life is similar to us, and as such “stuck” right now.
If there is intelligent life that developed enough to hack resource-efficient interstellar travel which doesn’t kill them and has found Earth and exists in the same universal time span as us, then it’s likely they’re either studying us (via infiltration), or avoiding this planet altogether.
JohnFen•29m ago
> Evolution is entirely random
Evolution is not entirely random. A lot of things go into it, some of which are random mutations, and some of which are not. But even if every change was a random mutation, natural selection is still in play and forms a non-random forcing function.
nis0s•47m ago
Evolution is entirely random, and you really just need one mutant to survive and propagate enough to create a line from its original mutation. If that mutation, or collection of such effects, results in greater than human intelligence at any point in time, then there’s no reason to assume that other intelligent life is similar to us, and as such “stuck” right now.
If there is intelligent life that developed enough to hack resource-efficient interstellar travel which doesn’t kill them and has found Earth and exists in the same universal time span as us, then it’s likely they’re either studying us (via infiltration), or avoiding this planet altogether.
JohnFen•29m ago
Evolution is not entirely random. A lot of things go into it, some of which are random mutations, and some of which are not. But even if every change was a random mutation, natural selection is still in play and forms a non-random forcing function.