Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

So you're back to Wigner's theory that consciousness collapses the wave-function?  Which of course raises the question of whether it needs to be a consciousness with a PhD or will an undergraduate  or a jellyfish do? Brent On 2/6/2018 1:04 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: The only conceivable

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 12:26:02 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > ​> ​ >> *The Dyson sphere is in my opinion one of the dumbest ideas around.* >> > > Freeman Dyson > ​ is not generally regarded as

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: ​> ​ > *The Dyson sphere is in my opinion one of the dumbest ideas around.* > Freeman Dyson ​ is not generally regarded as a stupid man.​ > ​>* ​* > *Maybe I will qualify that, a solid shell enclosing a

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-7, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 7:31:09 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> *IMO, FWIW, using religious fanatics to explain away possible alien >> sightings is nothing but a strawman argument. If you