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| Personal background |
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I'm a senior at UCSC studying physics, and am currently developing an undergraduate-level course on quantum computation for my senior thesis. My religious/philosophcal tendencies are a confused mishmash, suffice it to say I'm awestruck by even the most mundane, and am easily amused.
I see science as the most powerful, most focused, and best diciplined method we have for understanding the universe; but even at that science can illuminate only a tiny corner of the universe accesible to the human mind. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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My gut feeling is that extraterrestrial microbal life has evolved independently in many places, but another intelligence evolved before us will never be found. Suppose we are the "Supreme Intelligence of the Universe," what kind of force would you want that intelligence to be? What kind of force is it today?
The prospect of finding extraterrestrial intelligence is most exciting in what it could teach us about ourselves; how much of what we are is due to neccesity, and how much due to an accumulation of evolutionary accidents?
If the lottery is a tax on people with high hopes and low mathematical skills, SETI@home is a gamble for the wistful sage. |
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