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Re: are we alone in the universe?
i know Ive pointed this out before (looks back yep definitely said it) but due to the vast amount of undiscovered molecules and forms of planar existence (I'm talking about general things that exist out their) that we know nothing about and due to the fact that if life is like us it means the life form would have to develop in very similar conditions as us I'm willing to bet all my worldly possessions that any "being" (the quotes are their for a reason) we discover will be very different than us and almost guaranteed to be overlooked as intelligent maybe it wont even have any form of "thought'. our ideas of aliens are limited to the examples of life found around us and are thus almost guaranteed to be wrong. anything a terrestrial animal has is in no way needed for an alien. an alien might lack a circulatory or nerves system it might not even have a body. a great example to their potential abstractness is the virus. scientists are debating if a virus is a living organism. it pushes the bounds of what we consider life but what if somethings not even in those bounds (cold you have for example life that has no body or maybe lack a recognizable brain). and finally I'm curious to what constitutes intelligence. the only thing that truly makes us a thinking being as apposed to lets say a chimpanzee is a more developed prefrontal cortex (the tool using and adaptation part of our brain) the main difference that sets us apart from other primates.
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