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That just rephrases the question to: Why hasn't a higher intelligence built their equivalent of a freeway right through our ant hill?

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An ant cannot "see" not comprehend the purpose of a freeway, no matter how hard we might try to explain it. It would walk right over it and not think it were any different than your average rock.

Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that the ant's ant hill gets destroyed if the freeway is built over it. Or that the ant itself gets crushed if it gets run over while walking across the freeway. The ant will notice those things even if it doesn't understand what caused them.

Exactly. Thus far, all we can say for sure is that we have not yet been carelessly crushed to make room for some intergalactic freeway we do not understand.

That doesn't mean there isn't one right in front of our eyes though.

> That doesn't mean there isn't one right in front of our eyes though.

If there were, I would expect us to be carelessly crushed in a short period of time.

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