We, the humans, often talk about aliens or some kind of smart artificial intelligence existing at some corner of the universe. But despite all noise, we, so far, failed to collect any evidence of existence of any aliens let alone contacting them. The central dilemma here is theFermi paradox. The Fermi paradox mentions that the universe is very large with trillions of galaxies and billions of stars and planets. Out of these insanely large numbers, there exists only tiny fraction which contains habitable planets capable of hosting any kind of life form.
But even a tiny fraction will translate itself into a large number which indicates that there might be billions of species of aliens exist out there. Here, the Fermi paradox questions us: With so many alien species out there, why we failed to find them? Or, for that matter, why they also failed to find us?
The Wikipedia page of Fermi Paradox is flooded with answers related to this. Some says “it is too expensive to spread physically throughout the galaxy”, some says “intelligent civilizations are too far apart in space or time” and some even talks philosophically like “it is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself.”
Our planet is only4.5 billionyears old whereas our universe is about 14 billion years old. It’s safe to assume that most of the aliens will be way smarter than us. Experts argue that their level and quality of intelligence will be much adhead compared to human intelligence. Most of the advanced intelligence probably have reached the point of singularity.
Thesingularity, according to David Kelley, co-founder ofWired Magazine, is the point at which “all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes.”. That’s unimaginable because that simply denotes that those aliens are probably trillionsof times more intelligent than us.
Another interesting dimension of this logic is that such intelligent aliens will not bother to notice us like we don’t notice the 100 trillion microbes present in our body. We don’t notice them upto the point they don’t cause us any health problem. Probably, we have not reached the stage to bother them even!
If we follow the progression of human civilization, we will assume that in next 250 years we will not be confined to our static physical state, at least not in the molecular sense. We will not be artificial intelligences living within the machines either. Becoming machine intelligenceis just another dynamic phase of evolution—which will probably last for only few decades.
Ultimate form of advanced intelligence is likely to exists in atomic scale or even something smaller than that. It may be something like willful conscious energy or something even beyond that. Either the biology or the ones and zeros of the machines are too rudimentary to hold intelligent life forms. A functional advanced intelligence will be more spirit-like—more like our ideas of ghosts. Such advanced life forms might have the capability to cover millions of lights years almost in real time all around the universe, changing itself into whatever form it wants.
The bottom line is, we are unable to hear from the aliens. This is probably because we don’t have ways and means to understand their language which is far superior than our mundane physical abilities. Probably, there are millions ofsingularitiesthose have already happened, but, we are very similar to blind bacteria present in our bodies running around cluelessly.
The good news is that, we are progressing rapidly and one day we will be intelligent enough to draw their attention. At that point of time, like an agitated landlord at the door, aliens will make contact with us to let us know the norms followed by the advanced intelligence all around the universe.
Author: Technology Vista
