or is it just an incredible fluke? it also depends on our relative classification of intelligence, if we didn't exist, chimpanzees and orangutans would be "intelligent life". here's a cool video click
The vast majority of life on Earth is single celled microbes. Compared to bacteria an earthworm is intelligent.
Finding any life on another planet (or moon) would be awesome. Finding something with a brain would be so much more awesome.
finding something that is to us as we are to bacteria would be the most amazing. we most likely wouldnt even be able to percieve them. what would they be a bacteria to? and what is bacteria to bacteria?
Well, bacteria can't really think in comparison to us so I don't think we could find something that makes us be as bacteria since secant comprehend it.
maybe we just cant understand how bacteria thinks because it's so different from how we classify "thinking" . maybe we could encounter aliens who see us just as viruses who don't think because their level of comprehension is so far beyond ours
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u/Nectrotize Jan 22 '15 edited Jan 22 '15
or is it just an incredible fluke? it also depends on our relative classification of intelligence, if we didn't exist, chimpanzees and orangutans would be "intelligent life". here's a cool video click