It makes me slightly sad that a well-read tech icon like PG dabble in writing things which are not only beyond his creative expertise, but also speculative, imaginative & open to wide variety of interpretation, spirituality including.
Aliens may exist as very intelligent species or maybe dumb bacteria. We are discovering the laws of nature ourselves. We don't know enough of the laws of nature, despite the vast strides we have made in the last century. Maybe there are universal truths & representations, like the GUT which all life forms may eventually discover in their notation/formalism. Or maybe the laws of physics will have different implications in different corners of universe or multiverses, and we don't know those too with any degree of certainty.
Sufficiently long timelines of existence doesn't guarantee intelligence of species. Dinosaurs existed for about 140 million year & more, whereas we have stepped on moon in less than 25000 years of evolution.
These things are entirely uncharted territory, left best to astronomers who discover life form or make any contact one day
Aliens may exist as very intelligent species or maybe dumb bacteria. We are discovering the laws of nature ourselves. We don't know enough of the laws of nature, despite the vast strides we have made in the last century. Maybe there are universal truths & representations, like the GUT which all life forms may eventually discover in their notation/formalism. Or maybe the laws of physics will have different implications in different corners of universe or multiverses, and we don't know those too with any degree of certainty.
Sufficiently long timelines of existence doesn't guarantee intelligence of species. Dinosaurs existed for about 140 million year & more, whereas we have stepped on moon in less than 25000 years of evolution. These things are entirely uncharted territory, left best to astronomers who discover life form or make any contact one day