Aliens and us

‘Not so fast on alien theories’, is an interesting article by Duncan Steel . . . yet in trying to disprove, or approve of the assumptions of the probable existence of aliens, he seems to rely on scientifically glib concepts such as the Fermi Paradox, i.e. ‘If there are aliens, where are they?’ In pondering, the actuality of existence and so-called, meaning of life, be we lettered professors of scientific learning, religious theorists, or simply ‘intelligent laypersons, our search for knowledge in those regions is usually thwarted by the fact of our perspectives.

Just because a theory seems to work or be relevant from our perspectives does not confer any absolute relativity to actuality.

Our first errant perspective might well be that ‘existence’ is of, or for organic entities such as mankind or other ‘alien’ versions of mankind, when their existence is merely coincidental to a greater actuality. We know that ‘beginnings’ and ‘endings ’ are purely matters of human perspective and govern ‘actuality’, not at all.

All we really reliably ‘know’ of existence is that there is no such state as ‘nothingness’, that nothing was ever created from nothing, and therefore the particles involved in forming this singular dimension of existence, we call, the universe, came from somewhere . . . giving strong credence to the concept of multi-dimensional existence, and that mankind and other similar ‘viruses’ are not as relevant as we would like to think. Dennis Pennefather, Te Awamutu