Alien Life: Are We Even Advanced Enough To Know Their Existence?

Lately I’ve been reading a lot about humanity discovering Exo-Planets, and we’re finding them ludicrously quickly. Yet a new article has reminded me of a simple, and glaring, loop hole in how we process information. Thanks to this article, and the study it details, I am reminded of the complexity of human perspective and experience.

Scientific study is still extremely flawed despite best efforts from some very intelligent people. While Ben covers the medical industry in his Ted Talk specifically, the factors that make these studies bad science are still just as prominent in searching for alien life. As is with a placebo, do we warp the outcome of our searching by having expectations of what we find?

Could categorizing life as sentient or simply organic be a mistake? For example: If we search for “Alien life” on a planet that cannot house human-like life, what exactly are we searching for? Any organism capable of living in the environment?