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Where are the aliens?

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The tell tale tail !  Meow, of course it has a tail ! 

 

 

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On 11/6/2025 at 12:57 PM, FBW737 said:

I'm in a  doxastic state with low credence.🥸

my opinion has shifted. I've had an epistemic brake through that give me solid if not irrefutably ontological repositioning akin to falling down a whole that the universe is teaming with ET. We may have already seen them but we might not even know. I may have even seen one myself. My wife might be one of them! (that makes sense) There biology will be as EVO/DEVO predicts without variance. It's a fact. done like dinner! i've paradigm shifted and I haven't had to throw the baby out with the bath water either! LOL! you win Martin. I take it all back. Are you one of them?

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I can confirm that your wife is from the planet Zenocryptomobidiym 3a. She was assigned to you in order to monitor the human condition.

Her report would no doubt make fascinating reading. 

On 11/6/2025 at 10:09 AM, birdguy said:

I would think aliens would look pretty much like us.

If you want an example of pure alien intelligence, look to the octopus.

From the Google AI overview:

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Octopuses are remarkably intelligent invertebrates, comparable to a 3-year-old or a dog, known for problem-solving, tool use, camouflage, and recognizing individuals, despite having a vastly different brain structure from vertebrates.

How they compare:

Smarter than expected: They far surpass other invertebrates like clams and shrimp in complexity.

Different from vertebrates: While smart, their intelligence is "alien" compared to dolphins or apes, focused on physical interaction and problem-solving rather than complex social structures or communication, as they are solitary and die young.


In fact, it is thought that their relatively short life span limits their development considerably.

A thorough study of the octopus will take you down a marvelous rabbit hole.  Google "how intelligent are octopus" to begin.

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53 minutes ago, LHookins said:

Google "how intelligent are octopus" to begin.

 

500 million neurons but only a third are in the central brain that's responsible for higher level control and learning. So perhaps not as smart as a dog. If all the neurons were in the central brain they might be as smart as a dog.

Who knows though, we still have much to learn about such things and the role quantum processes may or may not play. 

Where are the aliens?

   As Pogo said "we have met the enemy, and they is us."

I tend towards the "Dark Forest" hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox, and expect earth to get creamed any time, now.

Especially if I found out humans viewed stuff like this as entertaining. (Humans genocide the galaxy)

Yikes.

 

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On 1/4/2026 at 1:42 AM, martin-w said:

I can confirm that your wife is from the planet Zenocryptomobidiym 3a. She was assigned to you in order to monitor the human condition.

Her report would no doubt make fascinating reading. 

There going to be sorely disappointed. I'm not human so we've got the upper hand!

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Part of the reason I changed my mind is EVO/DEVO and convergence evolution. There is ontological trouble in there for blind natural selection that smells exactly like the ontological trouble I've always been suspicious of. The truth is out there! LOL!

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8 hours ago, FBW737 said:

Part of the reason I changed my mind is EVO/DEVO and convergence evolution.

 

Convergent evolution is a concept I've mentioned before on the forum. Many, in fact most "experts", would say that an alien species is likely to be vastly different to us and that the Star Trek concept of humanoid aliens with a few ridges on the nose is nonsense. Well, I'm not sure about humanoid with a few nose ridges, but we do see convergent evolution in nature, where the same solution for a given problem is manifest. So maybe there are alien species out there that look "similar" to us. 

7 hours ago, martin-w said:

So maybe there are alien species out there that look "similar" to us. 

Or much the same as us.  We might not notice them walking down main street as different as much of our own human race is ethnically.

Check one:

Caucasion

Negroid

Hispanic

Oriental

Space Alien

Other

 

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The tires are worn.  The shocks are shot.  The steering is wobbly.  But the engine still runs fine.

I saw little green men in our garden last evening. They came up to our front door and tried to sell us an IQ cube. For instance someone's 100 IQ intelligence would be raised to 1,000,000. But our cat arched her back and the dog was barking, so I sent them away.

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50 minutes ago, Fielder said:

They came up to our front door and tried to sell us an IQ cube.

Fielder, are you sure they weren't trying to sell you an ice cube?

Noel

The tires are worn.  The shocks are shot.  The steering is wobbly.  But the engine still runs fine.

It probably was just ice. And expensive, $ 50! They also offered anti gravity shoes for $ 40. Swindlers!

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3 hours ago, Fielder said:

I saw little green men in our garden last evening. They came up to our front door and tried to sell us an IQ cube. For instance someone's 100 IQ intelligence would be raised to 1,000,000. But our cat arched her back and the dog was barking, so I sent them away.

It could have been frozen Alien DNA.  Should have taken a chance and bought it.

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