RE: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

Mon, 26 May 2014 15:54:07 -0700 

 

 

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Subject: Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

 

On 26 May 2014 23:31, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:12 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:

On 25 May 2014 23:32, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:

 

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:

I guess it would be pedantic to point out the silliness of aliens wanting to 
have sex with humans. I mean, we're more closely related to grass, jellyfish 
and slugs than we are to aliens...

 

Unless, of course life had already spread throughout our galaxy billions of 
years before our star was born and we are just the local Sol branch off the 
same galactic (or who knows perhaps even larger scale) tree of life. A 
plausible hypothesis – actually saw it a few nights ago on the Cosmos reboot is 
that when stars transit through interstellar gas clouds (the nurseries of new 
stars and planets) their attendant comet clouds become gravitationally 
perturbed, initiating an era of cometary bombardment. If a planet orbiting a 
star that is transiting one of these immense clouds get a good whack some of 
its life bearing rock can be hurled from the system and every once in a great 
while find its way to another water bearing planet orbiting some other star. 
This actually sounds plausible to me… that interstellar nurseries are also the 
cosmic engines for spreading advanced microbial life forms from planets of one 
star to other planets orbiting other stars…. Over the eons. Perhaps star 
systems have been exchanging DNA and microbial life since life first began 
somewhere in our galaxy and that this kind of emergent process is occurring in 
every galaxy in every universe with laws consonant with stable wet organic 
chemistry.

Chris

 

Makes sense, of course, but I'm not so sure. I don't think we know enough at 
this point to estimate the diversity of the solution space for biologically 
evolved entities with human-level intelligence or above. It could be that 
something very similar to us is the only viable solution, or the most likely 
solution.

 

Functionally similar (perhaps), but certainly not genetically similar. We 
aren't even gentically similar enough to interbreed with any other species that 
evolved on the same planet under very similar conditions to us - for example, 
we are very closely related to chimps, but we still can't interbreed with them.

 

Ok, but now you're making the requirements more stringent. We were talking 
about outer-space fetishists, not necessarily interbreeding. So functional 
similarity might be enough, as alluded in "sheep are nervous". :)

 

Well if you're just talking about something you can put your dick in (or an 
alien can put their proboscis in), that's a (ahem) broad range of items, 
depending on your tastes (See "A melon for ecstasy" and "The unrepentant 
necrophile" for some suggestions for things one can "have sex with" in this 
sense, should one be so inclined).

However your original reply (in blue above) certainly appeared to be talking 
about interbreeding. (Or did you mean humanoid forms are "the only viable 
solution for fetishists who happen to get their kicks from anally probing 
members of other species" ?)

 

But anyway .... OK, aliens may want to have sex with humans, just as a human 
may want to have sex with orangutans - but generally they won't, because sexual 
attraction is fairly fine tuned, both by evolution and social norms (indeed 
it's so fine tuned that species that could in theory interbreed often don't) - 
and, at least in my experience, most humans don't even want to have sex with 
most other humans ..... never mind fancying members of a different species who 
will almost certainly give out all the wrong visual, behavioural, and chemical 
cues.

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