<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/18 Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><span>Mmhhh. I suppose that the space of evolutionary trajectories is so vast, that unless one considers an infinite, populated multiverse scenario, what has really happened as opposed to the range of what could have still maintains an interest.</span></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure exactly what you are saying here. Could you expand a bit more?</div><div><br></div><div>One other thought while I wait, and this has been voiced by many others including Sagan. The feedback mechanisms come through the process of evolution itself. When the seeded planet(s) develop radio technology, then the progenitors get interested, and know that phase one is complete. Any planet that didn't develop radio technology is considered a failure and written off. We tend to think of projects of any sort on such small scales. We haven't even mastered multi-generational work yet. Surely expanded capacity to think includes expanded capacity to conceive. If you had the capacity, such a feedback mechanism built into the system by evolution itself would be far preferable to anything you could artificially design .</div>
<div><br></div><div>Darren</div></div>