Re: "analog computer" = useless hypothesis?

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 14:10:51 MDT


J. R. writes:
> If life coded itself into the quantum geometry of space itself, wouldn't that
> make it invisible to us? And if it's invisible to us, could that explain
> Fermi's "paradox" -- we don't see ETIs because they're in hyperspace.

The standard answer to this is that when life colonizes a new niche,
it does not abandon the old one. There is still life in the oceans
even though life has colonized land. So even if it is possible to move
into subspace, evolution will still encourage life forms which colonize
ordinary matter.

Hal



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