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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
We Don't Have the Tools to See the Signal
I think there's a great perceptual filter in the sense that an example of life evolving on a planet over billions of years has to acquire a certain amount of knowledge and technology. And you can see that with microscopes. I mean, we didn't know there were microbes on this table for our tables for thousands of years or telescopes. Like, there's so much of the universe we can't see. We have done as a species is outsource our physical perceptions to technology. Maybe that's the key technology that's going to allow us to see things like us and see the universe in a totally different way. It feels like we don't have any of the tools to see the signal.
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