[ExI] ETs/Aliens

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 07/09/2024 14:27, spike wrote:
> Maybe it is true that given arbitrarily much time, we could keep finding
>   new fun somewhere, finding new and interesting things to learn.  But we
>   might not be able to do that.  After a certain period of time, we might
>   conclude that OK, we have lived enough.  When we stop learning,
> thinking, growing, we are the functional equivalent of dead, even if we
> still draw breath and our hearts still beat.  Perhaps 50 million years
> at one human equivalent speed is sufficient to reach that end point.
>
> But of course we don't know that.  It would be equivalent to six million
>   consecutive human lives, so we have no way to comprehend what that
> would be like.

Six hundred thousand, unless the average human lifespan is 8.3 years. Or 
my calculator is badly misbehaving.

So, ten times more comprehensible. Or 10 x less incomprehensible.

Hm, No Way / 10 = Still no way.

Ben
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