What comes after intelligence? We see intelligence as an endless quest, as the maximum goal to achieve.
But imagine being a perfect intelligence, with the knowledge of all the principles of the universe, able to move transdimensionally across space and time.
After your curiosity is satiated, you will want to feel the most. You may become energy, you will seek to maximize energy, to become one with energy, to dissolve.
When there's no time, after "human" milleanials, without time and mortality, you will want to become energy, to disappear.
If such entities exist, why would they care about us?
Let's play this game: if there are endless worlds, with endless possibilities for life (which I believe. Our intuition says that even our Solar System is full of life in places like Europa, probably microbes in the Martian Poles too).
There are probably species, that have reached the maximum potential of life and science. Even if they disappeared, they could travel across space and time and visit us, and edit the past in order for us not to notice.
If time-travelling entities (aliens) existed in the past, even if they commited suicide by "converting into one" like in a Gaian theory, and Gaia being the whole universe in it's energy form, even then, they existed and could move back and forth in time and space.
The only way to call their attention in a vast universe would be with a big explosion or gathering of energy.
With all the possibilities for self-destruction, the only way to survive would be to send seeds everywhere, unable to be located with ease. Low energy entities that should develop until they reach higher amounts of energy and then become traceable. Or, noticeable. Even if traceable with low energy, nobody should care about them. Then there comes evolution.
We will have to do this too as humans in order to avoid self destruction. Colonies of unreachable humans, self-isolated, probably primitive.
At which stage are we? You know the answer full well.
But imagine being a perfect intelligence, with the knowledge of all the principles of the universe, able to move transdimensionally across space and time.
After your curiosity is satiated, you will want to feel the most. You may become energy, you will seek to maximize energy, to become one with energy, to dissolve.
When there's no time, after "human" milleanials, without time and mortality, you will want to become energy, to disappear.
If such entities exist, why would they care about us?
Let's play this game: if there are endless worlds, with endless possibilities for life (which I believe. Our intuition says that even our Solar System is full of life in places like Europa, probably microbes in the Martian Poles too).
There are probably species, that have reached the maximum potential of life and science. Even if they disappeared, they could travel across space and time and visit us, and edit the past in order for us not to notice.
If time-travelling entities (aliens) existed in the past, even if they commited suicide by "converting into one" like in a Gaian theory, and Gaia being the whole universe in it's energy form, even then, they existed and could move back and forth in time and space.
The only way to call their attention in a vast universe would be with a big explosion or gathering of energy.
With all the possibilities for self-destruction, the only way to survive would be to send seeds everywhere, unable to be located with ease. Low energy entities that should develop until they reach higher amounts of energy and then become traceable. Or, noticeable. Even if traceable with low energy, nobody should care about them. Then there comes evolution.
We will have to do this too as humans in order to avoid self destruction. Colonies of unreachable humans, self-isolated, probably primitive.
At which stage are we? You know the answer full well.
