Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: advanced races Message-ID: <587@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:17:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.587 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:17:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:31:34 EDT References: <3094@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 23 Summary: will be motivated by the desire to survive In article <3094@topaz.ARPA> Boebert.SCOMP@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes: >From: Boebert@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA > > Aliens will be looking for something that is attractive to >them, based on their frame of reference; there is no assurance whatever >that their motivations will make any sense to us. Our primary motivation is our desire to survive -- ourselves and our families, primarily; larger groupings to a lesser extent. Love, hate, fear, and most other emotions are explainable thereby. This desire is an inevitable consequence of evolutionary development. (Flames to net.origins, please.) Thus there is every reason to expect aliens to share it. Less obvious are things like religion. There are survival-related reasons for the development of religion, but it is not clear how much they relate to details of our development. Aliens might have some such institution which would lead them to behavior patterns which seemed very bizarre to us. But survival is a quite sufficient reason to colonize other stellar systems, so it is the most likely one.