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Originally Posted by Letum
Your arguing for the points where I do agree with you!
In the post I quoted I was causing you of inconsistency in not applying the
same ideas about theories and knowledge to your knowledge and theories
about theories and knowledge.
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Haven't I?
Isn't that an obvious implication from the first to the last sentence?
Again, I think this is word-picking only.
At the end I even described that I recently have changed one of my former opinions about alien contact. Isn't that illustrating the changing the nature of theories? I could add that I also changed my mind regarding the "originality" of alien life out there, and that I now see good argument to assume that most surviving intelligence out there maybe is not bound anymore to the natural form that once has formed up this intelligence, but into forms built by these earlier lifeforms, that make it more survivable, robust and less vulnerable to the passing of time, like man has begun to chnage his genes, and maybe will be successful to transfer his mind into machines in a still far away future. Maybe most intelligence out there is what we would call - machine-based intelligence. That scenario makes more sense than one may imagine at the first thought about it. True, that is theory, but one I form as best as I can on basis of what I see as reasonable. Ten years ago, i prioritised an assumed correlation between intelligence and higher civilisation, and that civilisation correlates with peacefulness. I have given up that thought, it just does not make much sense. It was no solid theory, but random belief only, or unfoundable wishful thinking.