05-27-2024, 03:55 PM
It occurs to me that certain elements of non human intelligences require thorough defining. After all, we are already theorizing (and marketing) the notion of "artificial" intelligence in machine form. That alone would make it necessary for certain considerations, such as the idea that any eventual encounters with NHIs may very well be with "machine intelligences" - even if they are only 'representatives' of their creator species... or if by some unimaginable processes it had developed "by natural 'evolutionary' means."
Whatever we "know" as an individual species (or a species full of "individuals") may be parallel to the NHI... or it may not.
Our paradigms, perceptions, precepts, and perspectives may all be uniquely distinct... and they may not.
In such an environment of 'mystery' we need to observe some form of clinical detachment, a re-evaluation of "what is evidently true" and what may not be since such a determination is based solely upon what we can perceive, and completely confounded by what we can't.
I suspect that as a topic of the discussion evolves, we will have to digress into other related subtopics... such as "What if the NHI refuses to accept us as worthy of contact?" or "What constitutes as a "realistic" purpose for contact with a species like ours?" Should we be enthusiastic, or reticent to pursue such a thing (see debate.)
Whatever we "know" as an individual species (or a species full of "individuals") may be parallel to the NHI... or it may not.
Our paradigms, perceptions, precepts, and perspectives may all be uniquely distinct... and they may not.
In such an environment of 'mystery' we need to observe some form of clinical detachment, a re-evaluation of "what is evidently true" and what may not be since such a determination is based solely upon what we can perceive, and completely confounded by what we can't.
I suspect that as a topic of the discussion evolves, we will have to digress into other related subtopics... such as "What if the NHI refuses to accept us as worthy of contact?" or "What constitutes as a "realistic" purpose for contact with a species like ours?" Should we be enthusiastic, or reticent to pursue such a thing (see debate.)
