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Yes, with all the search about life on other planets and all the fantasies ppl have about aliens from outer space... got me thinking...
Earth has all sorts of lifeforms... ofc many places are already visited by humans and studied... but certainly not all and everywhere
When you think about it... why must all intellegent life on earth be human? Isnt it logical that when one lifeform evolved there brains and thus got advantage over the ones with a lesser brain, that other lifeforms would get more and more powerful brains over time too?
(As those with slightly better brainpower are more likly to survive and thus mate, and the dumber once die early, and so on).
Possibilities for somewhat intellegent life that isnt discovered yet:
- deep in the oceans
- remote isolated islands
- small animals (like insects maybe, dunno would it be possibel for insects to evolve a powerful brain? Does it have to be so big as in humans, or wouldnt it be possibel to have a "nano-brain", scaled down like todays computers)
- known animals that dont apear to be intellegent to the human eye but are in a somewhat special way (like aliens maybe would be too)
If you asume there is a intellegent lifeform, but it is inferior to humans, wouldnt it also be logical that it would try to hide from humans, to not get declared war on (just look at all the former native human tribes everywhere, that got slaughtered by more advanced human "tribes"...)?
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Earth has all sorts of lifeforms... ofc many places are already visited by humans and studied... but certainly not all and everywhere
When you think about it... why must all intellegent life on earth be human? Isnt it logical that when one lifeform evolved there brains and thus got advantage over the ones with a lesser brain, that other lifeforms would get more and more powerful brains over time too?
(As those with slightly better brainpower are more likly to survive and thus mate, and the dumber once die early, and so on).
Possibilities for somewhat intellegent life that isnt discovered yet:
- deep in the oceans
- remote isolated islands
- small animals (like insects maybe, dunno would it be possibel for insects to evolve a powerful brain? Does it have to be so big as in humans, or wouldnt it be possibel to have a "nano-brain", scaled down like todays computers)
- known animals that dont apear to be intellegent to the human eye but are in a somewhat special way (like aliens maybe would be too)
If you asume there is a intellegent lifeform, but it is inferior to humans, wouldnt it also be logical that it would try to hide from humans, to not get declared war on (just look at all the former native human tribes everywhere, that got slaughtered by more advanced human "tribes"...)?
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