show up (e.g. the calf with 5 feet: it was eaten by
the wolf before copulating age).
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Stathis Papaioannou
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Subject: Re: Fermi's Paradox
John Mikes writes:
My mutation story is based on interactive responses to the ceaseless
changes of the rest of the world producing variations in offsprings. Some
more compatible than others.
The variations with more 'fitness'(?) will proliferate more abundantly so
they are the
I certainly didn't mean this as a criticism. I remember when I was8 or 9years old, reading about how animals developed this or that physical characteristic in order to cope with a particular environment. This was in the context of a discussion about evolutionary theory, but I didn't get it
Brent,
Faith usually refers to some belief independent of evidence.
I guess we have a serious problem of terminology. Faith without
evidence is bad faith or perhaps better blind faith.
I was meaning faith in truth. (Although faith in your 1-self works also
in my setting). I cannot define
On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:Destroying your species runs counter to evolution. I'll rephrase that: everything that happens in nature is by definition in accordance with evolution, but those species that destroy themselves will die out, while those species that don't
Bringing this thread back to the original subject, I am currently reading
Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon which covers all aspects of astrobiology
including Fermi's Paradox. I recommend it.
Bruno, you mentioned a few days ago that encryption or compression was an
interesting thought, but you
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Destroying your species runs counter to evolution.
That doesn't mean it can't happen - it only means you weren't the dominant
species.
I'll rephrase that: everything that happens in
nature is by definition in accordance with evolution, but those species that
intelligent enough, and evolved enough, it figures out how to make A-bombs and other WMDs. Then it may exterminate itself or, as you suggested, use up the raw materials accessible to it - and this explains Fermi's Paradox.
Hope they are less fatalist speculations about that ... But, given
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 06-juil.-06, à 07:38, Norman Samish a écrit :
Anyway, all this is beside the point I wanted to make, which is that
True Believers, whether Muslim, Christian, or heathen, cause harm,
destruction or misfortune, and are therefore evil.
I am not so sure. Perhaps
accessible to it�- and this explains Fermi's
Paradox.
Hope they are less fatalist speculations about that
... But, given the
few we know, perhaps you are right. I guess other
explanations are
still possible yet.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal
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Destroying your species runs counter to evolution.
Stathis,
'evolution' does not follow good manners and may not
be chisled in stone, I for one identified it (in my
narrative) as the entire history of the unioverse from
its appearance till its
p the raw materials accessible to it- and this explains Fermi's Paradox.
Norman
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We can all agree, I think, that many among us humans are irrational. What's
more, many are obsessed with killing others who don't agree with them. The
Conquistadors who killed the Aztecs and Incas because God wished it so and
the radical Muslims who kill the infidels because God wishes it so
Norman Samish wrote:
We can all agree, I think, that many among us humans are irrational. What's
more, many are obsessed with killing others who don't agree with them. The
Conquistadors who killed the Aztecs and Incas because God wished it so
They subjugated the Aztecs and Inca for king
this: Is this evil
inevitable in intelligent life? I suspect it is. And when life gets
intelligent enough, and evolved enough, it figures out how to make A-bombs and
other WMDs. Then it may exterminate itself or, as you suggested, use up
the raw materials accessible to it- and this expl
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