Science is beginning to acknowledge the inevitability of postbiological existence: In the paper “Alien Minds,” written for a forthcoming NASA publication, Susan Schneider, a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut and IEET Fellow, describes why alien life forms are likely to be superintelligent machines, and how such creatures might think, Motherboard reports. “It’s likely [intelligent aliens] won’t be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in every conceivable way. In all likelihood, [their] intelligence will be way more sophisticated than anything humans can understand.” She is not alone: Seth Shostak, director of NASA’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, NASA Astrobiologist Paul Davies, and Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology Stephen Dick, believe that the dominant intelligences in the cosmos are probably artificial. Royal Astronomer Sir Martin Rees and world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking, among many others, have expressed similar views.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:24:46 +0000
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