[ExI] [Bulk] Re: Virtual Reality is where the aliens are

[BillK]

On 26 August 2015 at 18:24, spike wrote:
> Come now, just try to grasp the notion please.  What if… we really are the
> first and only technology-enabled species in this whooooole biiiiig daaaam
> plaaaace, right here in this whooole unimaginably biiiig daaaam time, this
> entire observable universe?  Gaze into some of the Hubble deep space images
> and just try to get your head around that.  If it is true, then just think
> of where on the evolutionary scale we place the exceedingly rare us: we of
> the astonishing good fortune, the ones who have access to these modern
> information streams, these life forms reading this paragraph, this sentence,
> this phrase, this this.
>


Of course, given the huge size of the universe, the worry is that
many, many species have thought these exact words and then gone
extinct.

The optimistic claim is that they have just gone undetectable.

BillK