Tag me in the Rare Earth group. I think the conditions for life to exist and thrive for an extremely long period of time may require an extremely random and almost inconceivable amount of things to get just right such that there’s enough stability for life to get complex enough for intelligence.
A sub theory is simply that intelligence isn’t necessary end point for evolution or, intelligence can exist quite distinctinctly from technology – you could have highly intelligent aquatic species for example, but they’re not going to invent fire, or the wheel, or any number of things that lead to ultimately to industrialization and advanced civilizations. Or, I don’t care how smart an octopus is – ain’t none ever gonna build a radio telescope.
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