From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 11:30:03 MDT
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, scerir wrote:
> "They don't have to be made of ordinary matter
> at all. They could exist on many levels that
> we are unable to detect."
But now you raise some questions more perplexing than
the F.P. -- e.g. have they always been there or did
they evolve in some way? Do they not contact us or
spread into our sphere by choice or simply because
it is impossible? If by choice -- are the laws of
physics "better" in their realm for the evolution
of intelligence? *Or* do all intelligent civilizations
discover such levels and migrate there? Or do they
create such levels because they can and doing so is
the highest expression of the beauty by non-self-directed
evolution?
I'd suggest you are creating more problems than you are
solving by suggesting this...
> Here they are ...
> http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307335
I just knew it -- I glanced at the list of authors yesterday
[which reads like a "who's who" list of physics...]
(and was silly enough to peruse the text briefly) and moved
on to some other things muttering to myself -- "I just know
someone is going to post this URL to the ExI list when there
are only 3-6 people on the list [possible lurkers not included]
even remotely capable of evaluating this."
Frak. I was right.
Ok, now here is an idea for making the list easier to deal with.
We divide it into two halves -- one where submissions solve more
problems than they create and one where sumbissions create more
problems than they solve. Just a thought.
Robert
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