34. The Fermi Paradox

Scientists Finally Solved The Fermi Paradox - And It's Not Good: 
The Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years. Human beings originated 200,000 years ago, so we've only been around for 0.01% of the age of the Universe. An intelligent species could arise on any one of those countless worlds, and broadcast their existence to the entire galaxy. Once a species developed interstellar travel, they could completely colonize our galaxy within a few tens of millions of years; just a heartbeat in the age of the Universe.
So where are they? As far as we know, Earth is the only place in the Universe where life has arisen, let alone developed an intelligent civilization.

The above is quoted from a YouTube video, 

The video presents the extent of the Fermi paradox. Which is as vast as the physical universe.

I want to see what happens if I look at this seeming paradox from my Dreams perspective.

The Fermi paradox is based on the assumption that if "they" are "out there" then they are (hiding?) somewhere in the physical universe. But in the Dreams view the physical universe is itself a dream. A shared dream, but still a dream. A dream realm, access to which is shared by those who are linked in it. 

In this view, each of us is a dreamer, with links to the dream realm that are the result of past experiences. Each of us has an inner reality, comprised of links to other beings in the dream realm. Our concept of physical reality is only as extensive as our links to the concepts of it that we have encountered in the dream realm. And our links include everyone we know. And no one who we don't know.

If you will recall my earlier discussions of the dream perspective, dreams cannot be limited to humans. Every particle of nature that we can observe has its own dream existence. We are, of course, quite intimate with particles which compose our bodies. Although many of even these are hidden from our direct awareness. Still, if you look at one of your fingers, it is quite familiar, the result of many shared experiences. 

Now if you use your fingers to pick up a stone you see in your path, you can become familiar with that stone. Only passingly familiar if you look at it only long enough to grasp it and throw it in a pond. Exceptionally familiar if you put it in your pocket and later study it in some detail, noting where it is smooth and where it is rough, whether it is dull or shiny or speckled, and so on. 

And the stone acquires experience of you, becoming somewhat warmer at your touch, becoming wetter if you toss it in the pond. And so on. We presume that the stone does not retain any conscious awareness of you, but the encounter does add to its history, even if it turns out to be quite inconsequential. 

Probably most of our own experiences of the physical universe are quite inconsequential. But you may, if something leads you back to that link, recall your experience of the stone. (It may be instructive to note here that you may already recall your own very recent experience of reading about this stone. If so you have retained a link to that experience.) 

Back to the paradox. If you have never encountered it before, then your universe may, until now, have contained no link at all to the Fermi paradox or even to the possibility of distant aliens existing somewhere in your universe. In any event your link to this idea will probably remain quite inconsequential.

And even those few students of the paradox who pretend to be confounded by it will probably find it quite inconsequential in their daily lives.

So where are the aliens? If they exist at all, it seems they can exist only for a very few of us. And even for those few, that existence is likely to remain quite inconsequential. 

Or perhaps in your personal universe you have experienced some of the ideas about distant aliens presented in science fiction movies and books (including mine). If so, you may agree that such ideas actually abound in the dream realm, from which all realities emerge. Then, perhaps, for you the Fermi paradox is not as much of a paradox as some like to imagine.


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