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| Hi, I'm a 26 year old Delphi Programmer Currently Living in Cambridge, but originally from Birmingham, UK. I mainly enjoy drinking large amounts of beer. |
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One of the things that worries me is that anything we find out there is going to have to have EVOLVED intelligence. Or, have be built by something that had. Have you ever wondered about the chances of an alien being benvolent, against the chances of it being belligerent?
Anything that has gone through evolution, has, by it very nature, survived competatively against rival species, and a competative nature does not usually associate well with philanthropic one.
I just can't see an altruistic alien species evolving to space-faring maturity and coming over and helping us with no wish for a return on the investment. All I think we've really got to hope for is 'collaborative' behvaiour on their part and for them to gain in some way by us co-existing.
The only way I see 'Caring, Sharing' tendencies coming about in a species are through the evolving of behaviours needed in social groups of 'independants'. Group structures that are less individualistic and more 'Hive-like' don't require 'friendly' behaviours for social cohesion and so wouldn't evolve them, and non-evolved 'created' life wouldn't require it either - although could be imparted with it by their creators.
In cases of aliens without this 'friendly' social skill, I'd expect an alien species is likely to have an indifferent attitude to our survival, their reaction to us more cold and calculated. This is probably bad, as purely logically there is no reason at all to help other species when your much more powerful and they have nothing to give you in return that you couldn't just take by force anyway.
Final Thought - If it ever happens the alien species we encounter will undoubtably have some form of drive for SURVIVAL. That they exist and are active shows they cannot be indifferent to their own survival, anything that is, won't stay around for long. We could be considered a possible threat to that survival in the long run (if allowed to develop). |
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