From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 23:56:32 MDT
Mitch writes
> Even Minds inhabiting Moravec's interpretation space,
what is Moravec's interpretation space. Was that in "Robot"?
> would be moving stars around and manipulating galaxies,
> if they are indeed, existing SI's. Why not simply say
> that life is like, Rare Earth, as you mentioned,
Okay, so let's say life is extremely rare....
> but still leaving room for macro-civilizations,
> that exist, but are massively,distant?
I'm not sure that I understand you, but yes, if the universe
is large enough, then there will exist extremely distant
alien civilizations. But of course, they wouldn't have had
any effect on us, which was the original concern.
Lee
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