On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What difference does it make whether there are any other >species "out there", be they ETs or cherubims, seraphims, >principalities (and, oh, yes, the Pope himself!)? [...] >There is no way they could change the *nature* of the >world (which is for it to be the object >of our consciousness) -- except if they were to do the same thing >any hujman being also has the potential to do: > > To show us a new idea which we could > never have previously imagined, and therefore > to make everything look different to us > than previously we thought it was. The difference would be that at a minimum, they would have a sufficiently superior knowledge of technology to contact us. Considering the time depth of the store of human knowledge vs the age the of the universe, the odds are almost certain that their society would be orders of magnitude older than ours, and their knowledge further beyond ours than we could begin to imagine. However, like I said in the other post, I don't expect to hear from them, they would be far too wise to be so rash. -PV
