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There is some fish or something that change its colors to exactly match its surroundings. It can do this in some small amount of time? Even current days computers would not have the power to process that information as quick as this fish.
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Octopi.. Squid... are very good at that.
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Does that make it intelligent? Albiet in a different way than we are used to thinking of intelligence. I find it hard to discuss to define what intelligence is or isnt.
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Processing power is what enables it- the same as you catching or throwing a ball. Imagine calculating the trajectories.
But processing power that lacks the ability to think about its processing power lacks intelligence. The most powerful processor ever to exist would be useless for intellectual thought if it could not think about anything, even if it could process information quickly.
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Also what defines life? ET life will be absolutely nothing like life as we know it. I doubt it would have intelligence as we currently imagine it ( I dont think they could pass a high school SAT test that was translated into their language )
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This is speculation- true. But you say doubt... why?
There are certain things that are mostly constant. A rock on a planet ten billion light years away will be hard. Water would be wet if the atmosphere and pressure were similar to here.
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One thing is that in movies you always see weird ETs that have two eyes a nose and a mouth. ETs will NOT have 2 eyes a nose and a mouth. That is the signature of life on earth and of evolution here.
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Convergent evolution is out then?
You're speculating, but you have no way of knowing that convergent evolution on another planet will end up with the same successful traits as some of the traits that we have.