(April 26, 2018 at 12:29 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(April 25, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote: If we went to some other planet covered in life we'd probably find a specific animal to focus on as well.
Maybe, but we'd be the only one that aliens would be able to express their thoughts and we'd be able to communicate back. Even a chimp can only express the most basic things.
Philosophy is what makes us different.
If they have thoughts, ofc. We might be totally geeked out about a plant..and, after killing all the sentient natives we couldn;t care less about..get down to the business of exploiting useful exobiology.
In any case...yeah..sure, there are plenty of things that make us different from x.
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