Intelligence is a pathogen. Wherever it develops in the universe, it rapidly spreads and consumes everything, wiping out most other life forms and eventually itself. It has probably developed over and over again over time all over the universe including our own galaxy. It may be relatively rare, but there would still be millions of instances. The fact that we have found no evidence of intelligent life elsewhere is not because it doesn’t exist or is too far away, but because we have missed the band of detectable transmissions from these societies that existed closer to us. There will be others, but we may be gone by then. We should definitely not be working to spread to other worlds. We should perish here from our own behaviors as we are meant to.
You ever hear about the real weird shit where consciousness predates biological life and wife it will arise everywhere that a form of life could be supported?
Theory goes there’s there’s “aromatic rings” of simple chemicals that will naturally arrange into a structure that is 100% not alive. Kind of like a virus, but completely immobile and can’t directly interact with something as big as a cell, these are literally a dozen or so atoms strapped together.
These proto-consciousness can only experience two sensations, and due to arrangement will “prefer” one and avoid the other arrangement. They’re super basic and it’s really that binary.
However because they can act like a virus on an atomic level, they change things with the only drive to make things that look like them on an atomic level, because the only thing they experience is that is “good”.
It’s sounds nuts because I’m just going off memory, but shits a pretty big theory.
And is backed up with stuff like how when a crystalline structure is first synthesised, it will eventually be replaced by a different structure that took more initial energy to be produced initially. But after a “seed crystal” (again, atomic level) is present, it will quickly and effectively destroy any synthesis of the original polymorph.
And fuck me if that isn’t the missing link between basic aromatic rings and viruses towards the evolution of life as we define it.
And I’m not saying “missing link” as just an expression…
They were intrigued by a molecule called ribo-aminooxazoline (RAO), which they discovered could react to form two of RNA’s nucleotide building blocks. RAO is among a rare class of crystals that enforce a single chirality: Once a crystal starts to grow from either right- or left-handed versions of the molecule, only molecules with the same chirality can bind to the structure. Such crystals, if they started with an initial bias, could have caused chiral RAO to build up.
We need a good explanation for why a bunch of random shit lines up in one of two distinct and binary alignments because life needs that. And that’s what this this
Meaning life could spring up anywhere at any moment which is what you’re talking about.
Just because “our” side won the alignment war here on Earth, doesn’t mean that’s true everywhere. It could just have easily went the other way and developed what we call “mirror life” and scientists are actively trying to create it right now even tho that could wipe out everything bigger than basic bacteria…
Intelligence is a pathogen. Wherever it develops in the universe, it rapidly spreads and consumes everything, wiping out most other life forms and eventually itself. It has probably developed over and over again over time all over the universe including our own galaxy. It may be relatively rare, but there would still be millions of instances. The fact that we have found no evidence of intelligent life elsewhere is not because it doesn’t exist or is too far away, but because we have missed the band of detectable transmissions from these societies that existed closer to us. There will be others, but we may be gone by then. We should definitely not be working to spread to other worlds. We should perish here from our own behaviors as we are meant to.
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You ever hear about the real weird shit where consciousness predates biological life and wife it will arise everywhere that a form of life could be supported?
Theory goes there’s there’s “aromatic rings” of simple chemicals that will naturally arrange into a structure that is 100% not alive. Kind of like a virus, but completely immobile and can’t directly interact with something as big as a cell, these are literally a dozen or so atoms strapped together.
These proto-consciousness can only experience two sensations, and due to arrangement will “prefer” one and avoid the other arrangement. They’re super basic and it’s really that binary.
However because they can act like a virus on an atomic level, they change things with the only drive to make things that look like them on an atomic level, because the only thing they experience is that is “good”.
It’s sounds nuts because I’m just going off memory, but shits a pretty big theory.
And is backed up with stuff like how when a crystalline structure is first synthesised, it will eventually be replaced by a different structure that took more initial energy to be produced initially. But after a “seed crystal” (again, atomic level) is present, it will quickly and effectively destroy any synthesis of the original polymorph.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir#Polymorphism_and_temporary_market_withdrawal
And fuck me if that isn’t the missing link between basic aromatic rings and viruses towards the evolution of life as we define it.
And I’m not saying “missing link” as just an expression…
https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-could-explain-why-life-molecules-are-left-or-right-handed/
We need a good explanation for why a bunch of random shit lines up in one of two distinct and binary alignments because life needs that. And that’s what this this
Meaning life could spring up anywhere at any moment which is what you’re talking about.
Bonus pessimism:
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mirror-life-risks-molecular-chirality/
Just because “our” side won the alignment war here on Earth, doesn’t mean that’s true everywhere. It could just have easily went the other way and developed what we call “mirror life” and scientists are actively trying to create it right now even tho that could wipe out everything bigger than basic bacteria…
Reminds me of Bruce Sterling’s Swarm. (It was adapted into a Love, Death, and Robots episode.)