<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Dougherty</b> <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/3/07, Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It seems more likely to me that life is very widespread, but intelligence is<br>> an aberration.<br><br>...at least what we think of as intelligence in a human capacity.
<br>Although if human intelligence evolved or emerged by accidental<br>mutation, isn't there equal probability that there exist other forms<br>of emergent intelligences we are currently unable to recognize? In<br>that case, we may be in a swarm of intelligent systems but we're just
<br>so clueless (in our hubris) that we can't see it.<br></blockquote></div><br>Do you mean all around us? What would possible candidates for such systems be?<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou