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From: pjm@ionia.ionia (Patrick J. May)
Subject: Re: Anti-life
In-Reply-To: snowhare@xmission.com's message of 25 Sep 1994 10:03:13 -0600
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In article <364701$gl@xmission.xmission.com> snowhare@xmission.com (Snowhare) writes:
   Jonathon Alexander wrote:
   : It bothers me that we haven't yet found any traces of 
   : intelligence on other stars. Stars and planets form from disks 
   : [...]
   : Life should be common. Intelligence being a great survival tool should
   : evolve.

     This is a questionable assumption.  Possibly intelligence results
in too much potential for self-destruction.  See "The Swarm" by, I
think, Bruce Sterling for an interesting bit of fiction on this topic.
(For what its worth, I personally agree with your assumption.)


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