Dr. Eric Haseltine
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That was big.
That was depressing for us because we want to explore Mars.
But the fact is, we don't know how to send a human to Mars and bring him back in good shape.
Radiation, low G's and hazards on Mars and so forth.
And so where all that takes you is the first thing you're going to do is not going to be biological.
It's going to be AI.
And so that tells us that if something has come here from another civilization, it's probably not certainly it's probably a machine.
Or something.
And that doesn't mean it's not alive because now you're getting into what is life.
And could an AI in a machine be alive?
And this gets into what is life.
And the biologists I know say it's simple.
If a ball rolls downhill, it's dead.
If it rolls uphill, it's alive.
Meaning life is locally negantropic.
It behaves, it rolls uphill.
Yeah.
And so could you have an artificial machine that to all intents and purposes, you know, had maybe emotions, had feelings?
Probably.
Yeah.