Maybe, but I’m not really convinced. If there’s a technological pathway between prehistory and space colonization, it’s not a miracle for intelligence to find it; and while the complete nonexistence of such pathways might be a generic feature of planets and biospheres containing intelligence, I don’t see why it necessarily would be.
It clearly isn’t necessarily so, if we are a counter-example, as I am assuming.
I don’t claim to have a hard scientific case for my statement. I’m just stating my impression—that we seem to have it pretty sweet, perhaps sweeter than we should reasonably expect.
Maybe, but I’m not really convinced. If there’s a technological pathway between prehistory and space colonization, it’s not a miracle for intelligence to find it; and while the complete nonexistence of such pathways might be a generic feature of planets and biospheres containing intelligence, I don’t see why it necessarily would be.
It clearly isn’t necessarily so, if we are a counter-example, as I am assuming.
I don’t claim to have a hard scientific case for my statement. I’m just stating my impression—that we seem to have it pretty sweet, perhaps sweeter than we should reasonably expect.