One thought I have, is that human thinking is just one perspective which is limited to the realm of living thoughts. Meaning our thoughts are biased towards what we can see and think about, so we cannot see anything else. Human thinking has a limited range.
That's always what I conclude when I hear about life or intelligent life in the universe. We are made of life, but intelligence may be specific only to the life on earth, or maybe there are other forms of intelligence that are so different from our own that we could not even recognize them as intelligent of even communicate with them.
That's essentially what I think when I hear "we are a speck of dust in the universe". We're no just small and far from everything, we are not able to understand how our brain can be intelligent. That's why I'm a nihilist. I don't really see any interesting food for thought to chew on. What's "meaningful" is beyond our reach for now, and it will stay that way until our brain evolve, or we create AI smarter than us, or we just find ways to directly improve our intelligence (more neuron connections, neuro-stimulants or drugs, brain extensions, what have you).
Totally agree. IMO it's also be amazing if we could create an AI which could evolve itself to the point of understanding things we can't while understanding humans well enough to be able to explain those things in terms we could understand.
Then again, maybe if it found out "higher" "actual" truths, it could see that possibly explaining those to humanity wouldn't be "good", and thus lie / withhold information for our own "benefit".
That's always what I conclude when I hear about life or intelligent life in the universe. We are made of life, but intelligence may be specific only to the life on earth, or maybe there are other forms of intelligence that are so different from our own that we could not even recognize them as intelligent of even communicate with them.
That's essentially what I think when I hear "we are a speck of dust in the universe". We're no just small and far from everything, we are not able to understand how our brain can be intelligent. That's why I'm a nihilist. I don't really see any interesting food for thought to chew on. What's "meaningful" is beyond our reach for now, and it will stay that way until our brain evolve, or we create AI smarter than us, or we just find ways to directly improve our intelligence (more neuron connections, neuro-stimulants or drugs, brain extensions, what have you).