Water Worlds, Naive physics, Intelligent Life, and Alien Minds

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jcos....5..897g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Cosmology (2010), Vol. 5, p. 897-904

Biology

Astrobiology, Evolution, Intelligence, Alien Minds

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Intelligence is about achieving complex goals in complex environments; and it follows that the nature of a specific intelligent system is bound to be highly dependent on the nature of the environment in which it finds itself. Here we explore some of the ways in which human intelligence appears to be dependent on particular broad aspects of the environment in which we evolved, and discuss some possible differences that might be seen in alien intelligences adapted to radically different environments such as worlds comprised entirely of water. As a case in point, possible characteristics of intelligences adapted to complex-fluid-dominated rather than solid-object-dominated environments are discussed in detail.

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