[ExI] Another answer to the Fermi Question

Dan TheBookMan danust2012 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 14:49:33 UTC 2015


On Sep 28, 2558 BE, at 7:33 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Re this thread, here is yet another answer to the Fermi question.
> Charles Stross works the idea that humans abandoned reproduction and
> the culture was carried on by a bunch of sex dolls.
> 
> With human it does make a perverse sort of logic.  Human males and
> females have been subjected to different selection and have rather
> different criteria for ideal mates.  It's not too hard to imagine sex
> dolls displacing both sexes.

Only solves the paradox if something like sexuality is the norm amongst intelligent species and there's no replacement for reproduction and everything else goes 'just right.'

Regards,

Dan



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