I wrote a scifi book in which I wrote 'heaven' as being an alien construct. Somewhere in the universe a tremendously technologically advanced civilization constructed a device which simulates 'heaven' for all people in the universe. Through 'enlightenment' the discoverer is able to bring knowledge of 'heaven' back to their people but in our history how could a figure like Buddha or Jesus post-enlightenment explain aliens and advanced technology. So you end up producing a story at a level of your current day scientific understanding.
Fundamentally your message to humanity post-enlightenment would be the rules on how to get to heaven. Which many world-religions classes go into depth. There are fundamental rules that benefit everyone to follow that wouldn't really be inherently human to follow.
>We'd probably share Occam's razor. There doesn't seem anything specifically human about any of these ideas.
Aliens will also have developed the piano and chess. They are inherent things to discover eventually.
Fundmantally a great way to analyze what the rules are would be impossible to list. Just look at the list of crimes in countries which are so large lawyers dont even know them all. So you need a system that's much more simply. Isn't that system 'karma'.
> Aliens will also have developed the piano and chess. They are inherent things to discover eventually.
How could that claim be true? We have highly intelligent beings (i.e., “aliens”) right here on Earth that have not developed these things.
These discussions on aliens are often off the rails from the start because they implicitly begin with the assumption that humans are the only intelligent beings on Earth.
>How could that claim be true? We have highly intelligent beings (i.e., “aliens”) right here on Earth that have not developed these things.
Are you using the 'illegal immigration' definition of alien?
>These discussions on aliens are often off the rails from the start because they implicitly begin with the assumption that humans are the only intelligent beings on Earth.
Do please elaborate because I don't share this opinion. Do you believe aliens live amongst us?
What is an alien other than a biological being from another planet? We have biological beings on Earth that share DNA with us but possess wildly different intelligences and cognitive systems. Is it a stretch to use these as examples that aliens may share little in common with us?
>What is an alien other than a biological being from another planet?
Alright, agreed. Which as far as I know we have no known aliens ever discovered.
>We have biological beings on Earth that share DNA with us but possess wildly different intelligences and cognitive systems. Is it a stretch to use these as examples that aliens may share little in common with us?
You're backpedaling pretty hard. You said there are 'highly intelligent beings on earth' besides us. I know of no known examples that fit your claim. Happy to listen.
It’s not backpedaling. Both things are true. There are wildly different “intelligences”. Plants, for example. As for highly intelligent, orcas are an example.
And all this relies on some definition of intelligence, which I don’t think we even have a good one for.
Fundamentally your message to humanity post-enlightenment would be the rules on how to get to heaven. Which many world-religions classes go into depth. There are fundamental rules that benefit everyone to follow that wouldn't really be inherently human to follow.
>We'd probably share Occam's razor. There doesn't seem anything specifically human about any of these ideas.
Aliens will also have developed the piano and chess. They are inherent things to discover eventually.
Fundmantally a great way to analyze what the rules are would be impossible to list. Just look at the list of crimes in countries which are so large lawyers dont even know them all. So you need a system that's much more simply. Isn't that system 'karma'.