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  • I love to watch science fiction movies but I cringe -- I cringe whenever I see a depiction

  • of the aliens. First of all the aliens speak perfect English. Not just British English.

  • They speak perfect American English. And obviously they're a human inside some kind of monkey

  • suit. I mean we have Hollywood special effects, right. So why can't we get better aliens.

  • And then the aliens think just like us. They're territorial. They want to conquer. They want

  • resources. They want -- they see humans as inferior. But you see, that's only a byproduct

  • of our evolution. Look at other animals in the animal kingdom. Some animals are not territorial,

  • okay. They don't have to conquer. We have other paradigms in the animal kingdom which

  • are totally different form the way our brain is constructed. But when we look at aliens

  • in the movies we're basically projecting our own consciousness in aliens. Our fears, our

  • desires are projected and they are a mirror of who we are, not a mirror of who they really

  • are.

  • For example, if we take a look at a bat or a dog, the dog's brain is mainly interested

  • in smells. It's swirling in a universe of smells while a bat's brain mainly is concentrated

  • on sonar, on detecting clicks and echoes. Same thing with the dolphin brain. Their consciousness

  • is totally different from our consciousness because they see things differently than us

  • because of their evolutionary history. For example when we see a cat and the cat comes

  • up to us and tries to purr next to us, we say to ourselves, "Oh, nice cat. The cat is

  • being affectionate." No. The cat is not being affectionate. It's simply rubbing his hormones

  • on you and saying, "I own this human. This human is mine. I'm marking my territory. This

  • human feeds me twice a day. I've trained him."

  • So a cat sees the universe totally different than we do and yet we impose our thinking

  • on an alien. Now on the question of intelligence. If these aliens are more intelligent than

  • us, how would they be more intelligent? In the book I say that one of the main ingredients

  • of intelligence is to predict the future. The ability to simulate today so we see tomorrow.

  • And that requires a high level of intelligence to be able to understand the laws of nature,

  • the laws of people. What is the most likely outcome of a future event. That requires intelligence.

  • If they are more intelligent than us they will see the future much better than us. They

  • will see outcomes that we cannot foresee. They will simulate scenarios that we cannot

  • even dream of. They can outwit us every time.

  • Think of a safecracker. A safecracker may have a low IQ, may have dropped out of elementary

  • school. But the safecracker can simulate the future much better than a cop can and that's

  • why he can rob banks and get away with it. And so in other words, the criminal mind is

  • not necessarily stupid because it has low IQ. It's quite well adapted for what it does.

  • And what it does is to simulate the future of a crime. Now think about when we encounter

  • intelligent life that is more intelligent than us. They may see the world totally differently.

  • Their world may be a world of smells, a world of sounds rather than a world of eyesight

  • like our brain is constructed. And most important, they may be able to see the outcome of future

  • events much better than us. They'll be able to actually run circles around us because

  • they see the future.

I love to watch science fiction movies but I cringe -- I cringe whenever I see a depiction

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Michio Kaku關於 "外星大腦 (Michio Kaku on Alien Brains)

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