Comment: Assuming intelligence is the universe’s goal mistakes both evolution’s indifference and our place within it. Conversational Leadership invites us to question such presumptions, not reinforce them.The assumption that technical civilizations must necessarily make an appearance, even after many billions of years of biological evolution, implies that the ultimate purpose, or goal, in the formation of stars and planets is the production of intelligent beings and technical civilizations — an idealistic and teleological view.
Credit: Carl Sagan
Source: Intelligent Life in the Universe (p. 379), 1966
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