Partial solution to Fermi paradox is incentives to colonize. Humans are primates and are territorial, avid to control resources.
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Replying to @Mangan150
If evolution proceeded differently elsewhere, then maybe other intelligent life would have no incentives.
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Replying to @Mangan150
Unlikely that intelligent life could arise outside a predatory, social (but not eusocial) species, tending to Malthusian limit.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Mangan150
.. Coordination of hunting is the main intelligence driver. Evolution avoids big brains when it can. They bring control problems.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Mangan150
Liar vs. liar competition is the main intelligence driver. Eusocial organisms could in theory hunt.
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Replying to @Mangan150 @Alrenous
Beyond my pay-grade to estimate. (Dark SF writers like it.)
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Wish there were some good references for the evpsych of intelligence (e.g. deception arms races).
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Good circumstantial references: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/317/5843/1347.abstract …http://science.sciencemag.org/content/317/5843/1344.abstract …
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @narmno and
Trivers is probably most closely associated with the deception link, fyi: http://roberttrivers.com/Publications_files/Trivers1991bookchapter.pdf …
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