Monday, December 8, 2014

Discovering Alien Life in an Unexpected Form (part 1)


It has been suggested that we are most likely to discover alien life by finding either microbes in our solar system, signals from an alien intelligence, or organisms in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. The most profound impact would likely be discovering evidence of an alien intelligence, but our current expectations might not be aligned with how advanced that intelligence might be. We often assume things based on what we are familiar with, but consider how the human race is currently advancing with technology. Some speculate that we may soon wire our brains to the internet, and many are predicting that Artificial Intelligence might surpass our own within the next fifty years. A new theory about discovering alien life suggests that we'll find something far different from little green men--we may discover aliens have advanced themselves to exist as a form of artificial intelligence.

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