George LoBuono - Alien Mind - a primer (PDF)

George LoBuono - Alien Mind - a primer (PDF)

Book description:
"Imagine the following. You go to a science museum and proceed to the hall of ancient civilizations. There, you walk among scenes of primitive life: crude shelters, fires, and rudimentary handicraft. As you bend close to look at semi-apes with small skulls and big jawbones, a powerful stench overwhelms you. Suddenly, it hits you---this is no ordinary museum. When you approach the displays they turn to life, transporting you to the actual scene of such events: the smoke, the fear and the passions of a cruel but beautiful landscape. How would you feel?  Your experience would be similar to what aliens might feel when visiting the planet Earth, with one exception. Some aliens could be expected to have advanced to a level that is many times beyond the difference between you and the semi-apes in the museum. How could aliens be multiply more advanced than laser surgery, semiconductors and jet flight? Wouldn't they at least sympathize with our literature, our legal institutions and our charity? They probably would, yet some might be pained to see humans make the same mistakes that they, themselves, made thousands, if not billions of years earlier. They might want to hint at a better way of life. No doubt, some would want to help us evolve more peaceably."

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