I wonder what, if any, the relationship is between several things: predicting what humans will learn about the laws of nature, and predicting what alien life is likely to be like, for both an estimate and confidence in it.
It feels incongruous that I am relatively agnostic and uncertain about alien life’s form (assuming it exists) but somewhat confident physics is close to hitting bedrock within the century.
I could just be ill-informed and reasoning poorly. Even so, I would expect patterns to those shortcomings.
I wonder what, if any, the relationship is between several things: predicting what humans will learn about the laws of nature, and predicting what alien life is likely to be like, for both an estimate and confidence in it.
It feels incongruous that I am relatively agnostic and uncertain about alien life’s form (assuming it exists) but somewhat confident physics is close to hitting bedrock within the century.
I could just be ill-informed and reasoning poorly. Even so, I would expect patterns to those shortcomings.