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Bitrex

On 08/21/2017 07:10 PM, wrote:
On Monday, 21 August 2017 17:18:40 UTC+1, bitrex wrote:
On 08/21/2017 11:57 AM, tabbypurr wrote:

If there are many other technological civilizations in the Universe,
i.e. intelligent life is common, it doesn't seem unreasonable at to
assume that these civilizations would be the product of convergent
evolution and would have similar characteristics, at least similar
enough to the point that a common understanding could be reached through
language.

With a data set of one, there's certainly no scientific justification
for assuming we are either exceptional, or that everyone else are Gods
and we are garden spiders. Assume "average" until proven otherwise.

I don't see any logical or factual basis for any assumptions about extraterrestrials, should they exist.

At the moment you naturally have to start with an _assumption_ (i.e.
theory), either they exist, or they don't. If you assume they don't then
there's little more to say. If you assume they do then, currently, the
only further hypothesis which is logically justified from your axiom is
that humanity is a typical example.

None of the above is non-science, but it is as far as science can
currently take you with a data point of one. Regression to the mean
is a real science thing, and if it is actually science and holds true
for populations on Earth then to be so it should hold true for
populations of things everywhere, not just on Earth. There is no reason
to assume a-priori that it doesn't.

Speculation about how we're just like ants in a Universe filled with
inscrutable intelligent beings of inscrutable purpose is at this point
philosophy, not science.

you've certainly confirmed you do not understand what science is. Or logic.

NT

You've got nothing.