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I hale from the US. As a computer professional with many passions including philosophy and physics, I want to help the boinc community as much as I can. I have 3 computers dedicated to cloud computing. One of which is a gaming system I optimized specifically for it. I'm 33, male and I love all kinds of food :)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think the search for other lifeforms is something that would change the way the world looks at life, earth and life forms. It raises interesting questions such as how do we tell life from non life? Is something life because it can think? Computers can think, react, and even have methods of self defense. Is something alive because it can move or require water? What about humans who are asleep or in a coma? What about cars or bacteria? It raises moral questions like would it be murder to kill lifeforms just because we more powerful. And even other questions such as what would the world's reaction be if we found intelligent carbon based life on other planets? Would we be the kind of specie that would be ashamed of ourselves because of our war, indifference, and global destruction? Or can we rise above these things and become a society of peace, advancement, wisdom and love? Would we be ready if we found life? I think that the more we learn about the cosmos, the more we learn about ourselves. We are very big yet very small. We have so much to learn and we need to work together if we are to accomplish anything.
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