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With billions of galaxies and hundreds of billions of solar systems, the calculation seemed simple: if life is a natural biological process, the universe must be crowded.
However, the “great silence” that envelops the cosmos, embodied in the famous Fermi Paradox, points to a far lonelier reality. Recent studies and reflections by leading scientists, including physicist Leonard Susskind, suggest that intelligence is not the ultimate goal of biology, but an extremely rare probabilistic anomaly.
The myth of biological progression
A common misconception is that evolution is a linear ladder inevitably leading to complexity and intelligence. Earth’s history contradicts this view. For approximately three billion years, life…
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