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257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos

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What Happens When You Go to a Planet Which Is Not Undergone?

One of the arguments i like for encountering extra terrestrial intelligences is there likely to be far ahead of us. And maybe they know the answers to some of these questions. Like, oh, consciousness, we figured that out ten thousand years ago. Or, or, you know, hat dark energy. Oh, dark energy, ye, we figured it out, and we use one firstare spaceships or something? Is, yes. So so much of this is driven by the unknown, just as with non non star trak stuff. I make a passing reference to that again in in the book. You know, a few hints on black matter, black inn dark matter, would be terribly

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