Why We'll Never Meet Aliens

Re:Why We'll Never Meet Aliens by fchollet on Friday May 03, 2013 @06:37PM (#5653075)

Curiosity, by this point, is extremely likely to be a required condition for intelligence in any species. You should look into the AI work done in developmental robotics and Artificial Curiosity...

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Re:Why We'll Never Meet Aliens by krsunny on Friday May 03, 2013 @06:52PM (#5653127)

By what point? In time? In evolution? Because curiosity can be simulated with machines why does that prove that its a characteristic of all developing biological life?

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Re:Why We'll Never Meet Aliens by coldtea on Friday May 03, 2013 @07:35PM (#5653273)

For one, any technological civilisation needs curiosity as it's basis.

Second, curiosity is prevalent all around advanced animals, mammals etc. Seems like an emergent property of evolution, that would be hard to not come out in any evolutionary process.

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Re:Why We'll Never Meet Aliens by fchollet on Friday May 03, 2013 @08:32PM (#5653438)

"by this point" == "given the degree of understanding of Intelligence that we have reached so far"

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Re:Why We'll Never Meet Aliens by hnhg on Friday May 03, 2013 @06:53PM (#5653130)

Maybe that's because we've designed it to resemble our own intelligence?

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