I can see intelligence arising from either competition with other species (like us) or a hostile environment (maybe like octopuses or birds, but competition is also very much at play there). The latter would obviously be a less likely place for life to exist long enough to become sufficiently complex to develop intelligence, but a culture which developed there might be much more communally minded than we are.
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Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoThat distance exists not only in space, but most likely time as well. Extrapolating from our singular data point, it would seem that the lifespan of a technological civilization is quite short. The odds of two of those being around at the right times for even one of them to detect the passing emission shell of the other is diminishingly small.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That and OUR ability to detect things is very, very limited. We’re just barely getting to thepoint of using tricks to o serve other planets’ wntire existence, let alone any animal on those planets.
Our perspective is certainly still too small to make any true determinations on the Fermi Paradox outside of ruling out some basic extremes.