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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by checkyoursudo on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:33AM (#33418453)
> Or an organic FTL drive conjured into existence over eons via distributed intelligence. Weird.

E.g., What if the first aliens to find us are hyperintelligent slime molds, whose entire existence is predicated on finding the shortest distance between two points in higher-dimensional space and then traveling there to see what there is to eat?

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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by Traubenfuchs on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:06PM (#33428238)
The anime Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet explores this.

Here squids evolved into a spacefaring race that is, if at all, only using organic technology and doesn't seem to have consciousness.

They are at war with the spacefaring humans that rely on mecha and AI. It ends with a very non-human and frustrating coexistence message instead of going for all out termination of hostile creatures.

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