[ExI] fermi question alive and well

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 22:12:13 UTC 2019


 intelligence theories can be tested but consciousness theories can't be,
John Clark

OH?  And why is that?    Before you reply, I"ll say this:  everything
depends on the definitions.  bill w

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 4:04 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 1:52 PM Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> > Nothing left to figure out?  What about what consciousness is and how
>> it fits into physics?
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>> I'll be damned if I know what that that has to do with the existence or
> non-existence of ET but I'd be FAR more interested in figuring out how
> intelligence works than figuring out consciousness because intelligence
> theories can be tested but consciousness theories can't be,
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>> *> Or what the universe is, why it's expanding, or why there appears to
>> be so much more matter that we can see?  Does none of that warrant an
>> explanation?*
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> None of those mysteries have a satisfactory explanation but the lack of
> evidence of ET activity does and the explanation has the virtue of being
> simple and short, ET doesn't exist. Under some circumstances the absence of
> evidence is evidence of absence, for example there is no evidence a china
> teapot is in orbit around Uranus and that is good reason to think such
> a utensil does not exist.
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> John K Clark
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