⭐ — Logical Schelling point : the idiocy of war

From 2018 and after

Here is a rather simple notion to understand how things may work between intelligent species in the Milky Way.

➠ Schelling point for intelligent species 

In numerous films and culture pieces, war between intelligent species is pictured — like in Star Wars, Star Gate and so on. However things may not work this way at all. First, because of the physical limitation inherited by (C) light constant for communication and Universe's observation and due to theoretical and practical limitations such as the Great Filter or auto-destruction risks.

It should be a natural Schelling point to understand that in this vastness you could lose yourself in a quest for a friend.

Why could you lose yourself ? Given the short time-frames allowing you to find yourself together alive with another intelligent species (the Universe is near 14 Billions years old, while Humankind in space is 63 years). Probability for both of you to be alive — and relatively near — at the same time are very low*.

How could you lose yourself ? For example, you may lose yourself in terms of physical movements (choices, direction of exploration with spaceships), or due technological and social limitations (context, auto-destruction, thrust speed), or even by the limited speed of observation (for any intelligent species may move itself too).

That's why you'd tend to select a default Schelling point to meet up.

It should also be another Schelling point that what is worth is peace only — from the point you become able to leave you home world. This is an important and logical conclusion when you observe the rarity and preciousness of life and intelligent life in the Universe (which is even less common). Secondly, this is also a logical outcome when you consider peace as a characteristic of intelligent life : the inherited evolutionary capacity to live in a group.

➠ About war

Finally, given the rarity and preciousness of intelligent life, conflict may not happen — or be controlled— for the distances between planets hosting intelligent life may be numbered in Earth millennia (thousand of light years). We can confidently speculate that risks are even lower at stades where animosity is still in play (given the relatively short time-frames considered) — let appart some strange cases where two or more habitable planet with intelligent life are in the same system.

Said simply, if you want war, the best option is to let you alone, the Great Filter will do its work or you'll disappear in loneliness inside the Galaxy's time-labyrinth. Which is also optimal in terms of resource wastes from a war perspective.

➠ Note

You can refer yourself to « Archipel de pensée : Hypothèse de l'estime Céleste » from 2018 (clic here), which was a first draft to explain the inimitable and invaluable preciousness of life — that logically dismisses the possibility of conflicts (moreover given the distances). Here is discussed how great care is given to Mars' rovers and probes to make sure that no infection is brought out with vehicles — giving potential and possible extra-terrestrial life a special care (since decades of space exploration already).

* To represent yourself what it's like, imagine thousands of tiny doors moving, closing and opening rapidly in the distance like dancing dots of light. To meet up, you need to move along one light-door during its opening time.

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