To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
Loneliness
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'
Design
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
God
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
Growing
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
Change
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Value
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
Challenges
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Chance
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Nature
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Nature
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Universe
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Universe
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
Universe
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Universe
I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.
Universe
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Universe
I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.
Science
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Science
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Science
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Space
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
Intelligence
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'
Intelligence
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Intelligence
Computers double their performance every month.
Computers
Computers double their performance every month.
Performance