<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/18 Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>> </span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> but besides the distinct possibility that cosmic panspermia, if it takes place at all, could be a "natural" process, extraterrestrials may not really care for feedbacks as much you and I do...</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or have evolved to the point that it has become unnecessary. If you're knowledgeable enough about "natural" systems and how they behave, and have mastered stochastic analysis, you're set. You may have figured out that the conditions required for life in the universe are stringently alike, and have further decided that any attempt at exogenous communication with this seeded environment might introduce added uncertainty into the experiment. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Imagine memos sent out about our probable phase of our evolution and its characteristics with so much faith in the science and math there was no need to check it against the reality and no way to do it because feedback mechanisms were not built in. Sounds ridiculously unscientific from our perspective, which relies so much on observation and feedback. You'd have to have the self-assurance of a God. Perhaps the methods of an advanced species would seem very unscientific to us. Who knows? But it is fun to speculate.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Darren</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>