This week, I read a chapter called "Weighing the Chances of Alien Intelligence". It basically talks about if the possibility of alien life is out there, then how intelligent will they be compared to humans. Scientists are looking for intelligence that can be sentient life. "The term Sentient menas conscious and self aware and implies the ability to use tools to construst a civilization"(50 Nardo). It also throws in a little of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution involving survival of the fittest. Nardo talks about a lion hunting. If he has good enough intelligence, he will be able to kill and bring food back to the pack and have a greater chance at mating with a female lion and pass on the genes of intelligence.
I think this chapter was a wierd one. I get the whole ET intelligence part. I couldnt quite pick up on the is it possible that there are life forms that are on our level of science and technology. Most people think alien life forms are ages ahead of us in technology. They can be cavemen for all we know.
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