Advanced civilizations could be communicating with neutrino beams

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6 pointskwikiel3 comments

Interesting view. The author writes:

“To summarize things with another quote from one of Dyson's famous essays: "When we look into the universe for signs of artificial activities, it is technology and not intelligence that we must search for. It would be much more rewarding to search directly for intelligence, but technology is the only thing we have any chance of seeing."”

This sounds like empiricism. I’m curious if the consensus these days is searching for technology?

What does it even mean to “search directly for intelligence”? Intelligence isn’t visible stuff. You can see things that are done or made through intelligent action, and in this context that would constitute technology.

The distinction is somewhat ill-defined, I agree

But how would you classify something like SETI. Looking for radio waves that show a pattern. To me, that would be "searching directly for intelligence".

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