Now imagine a man piloting an ultralite airplane with a camera, photographing the beautiful deer, watching them look back at his vehicle and him in shock. The deer are confused. Some run away some stand there in shock, some ignore it altogether. Some of the deer on the far side of the herd miss the event altogether. The amazing craft disappears into the horizon to return on another day.
The pilot has no impetus to land and talk to the deer, nor has any inclination to do so, were it possible. He is merely there to observe and photograph.
If the herd could talk to each other there would be those who deny the craft altogether, those who support the witnesses even without seeing it themselves, those that saw it and box the experience up into their own subjective package, and those that deny seeing it even though they saw it with their own eyes.
Man is far too self-absorbed to acknowledge our utter lack of evolutionary advancement. We assume that if another intelligent race were to exist in the multiverse that this race would of course want to communicate with us. My question would be WHY? Like the pilot of the ultralite, there is absolutely nothing the deer can teach him about his world or enhance his understanding of the universe in any way. They're animals. While they have their place, and offer their own unique beauty, in the end there is no reason to talk to them.
The pilot has no impetus to land and talk to the deer, nor has any inclination to do so, were it possible. He is merely there to observe and photograph.
If the herd could talk to each other there would be those who deny the craft altogether, those who support the witnesses even without seeing it themselves, those that saw it and box the experience up into their own subjective package, and those that deny seeing it even though they saw it with their own eyes.
Man is far too self-absorbed to acknowledge our utter lack of evolutionary advancement. We assume that if another intelligent race were to exist in the multiverse that this race would of course want to communicate with us. My question would be WHY? Like the pilot of the ultralite, there is absolutely nothing the deer can teach him about his world or enhance his understanding of the universe in any way. They're animals. While they have their place, and offer their own unique beauty, in the end there is no reason to talk to them.