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NJCher

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6. speculation is useless
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 08:51 AM
Mar 2013

I can understand why you would want to know that, but it's not relevant to the issue at hand. It's only relevant if you think ETs operate on the same thought basis as humans, and even then scholars have shown such speculation is problematic.

We cannot approximate the thinking process of entities that are from another world and who are so far advanced that they might be able to pull something like this off.

Even in our day-to-day world, attribution theory tells us it is pointless to speculate on the motives of another. When we do so, our conclusions are likely to be riddled with thinking errors, many based on the culture from which we come.


Cher

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