FallentoReason 2.0

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[/quote]Either way, I see it as trivial that we are quite possibly the only species of humans in the universe.

I assume you meant species of intelligent life

Finding intelligent life is what matters and not the traits that they might have gathered from their particular evolutionary path.

What are we even discussing here? What matters? Why would we want to find intelligent life and not have interest in their stories or history(their traits)?? Intelligent life ,to my knowledge, carries out its existence just like all life, only it seeks the power to change itself directly. It seeks the ability to cause its own evolution at an accelerated rate than what we typically see in nature. The true "purpose" for this is the evolution of evolution. Evolution is a process that permits the best working mechanisms to continue, always seeking a better way, yet natural selection itself is a very long drawn out process. Evolution is evolving to work faster. So we have evolved beyond evolution on this planet for now. We can alter our own DNA and so forth. Someday in the future, we may be able to travel to other life-permitting planets and spread different dna(frogs,tigers,our own,etc.). If that ever becomes reality, it could easily be described as evolved evolution.

In conclusion, yeah you can argue we're "special" in that sense, but so what? It doesn't matter how we would have turned out, you'd be saying we're special because of our unique biology. It's not a particularly thought-provoking point though...

Agreed, every living thing, including ourselves , is special in this way.

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Sorry I suck at this quote stuff