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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (El Gordo)
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Subject: Re: Defining other intelligence out of existence
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>> From:    markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
>> [...]
>> Neither generalization holds.  Most religions assert that we are indeed
>> not unique in the universe.  And the popularity of science fiction shows,
>> I think, that people enjoy thinking about nonhuman intelligences.

Which we will never know about. Asimov has written about the
virtual impossibility of "Contact" (c.f. Carl Sagan).

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