--- Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kurzweil already postulated this a while ago. > > Although I don't agree with his conclusions. He says > > that if any society were to attain the "singularity" > > then their presence would already be felt, and since > > we can feel no presence then essentially this proves > > that humans are the only sentient life forms in > > EXISTENCE. I wholeheartedly disagree with Kurzweil's > > reasoning in this matter, since he takes such a > > human perspective in regards to imagining an alien > > technology. I think his stance is very presumptuous > > on his part. For instance he assumes that we haven't > > felt their presence merely because there isn't > > anything to detect. When in fact he never considered > > that human senses or sciences may not be acute > > enough to detect them. > > Human senses, while crude, are good enough to detect a > wholesale rearrangement of a large majority of the > matter in the solar system.
A technology this advanced could also reprogram your neurons to make you believe whatever it wanted. There is no way you could detect this. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
