On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:01:38AM +1200, LizR wrote: > > Yes, I am hoping for a gradual decline ... what does the DDA have to say > about other sentient species? If, say, the Andromedans were going to > colonise their entire galaxy, we'd almost certainly have been born one of > them. Does it therefore predict that there will be no vastly populous > conscious race in any part of this universe or any other? >
Yes, it does. And that might explain the Fermi paradox. It doesn't rule vastly distributed "hive minds", though. Perhaps our future is to be assilimated with the Borg. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
