It’s not that we’ve seen a large number of biological species capable of starting a technological civilization and we’re dumbest of them. It’s that we’ve seen a large number of biological species incapable of starting a technological civilization and we’re only slightly smarter than any of them.
We know we’re at the boundary of being able to start a technological civilization because we can do it and we’ve seen biological species within an epsilon neighborhood that cannot.
It’s not that we’ve seen a large number of biological species capable of starting a technological civilization and we’re dumbest of them. It’s that we’ve seen a large number of biological species incapable of starting a technological civilization and we’re only slightly smarter than any of them.
We know we’re at the boundary of being able to start a technological civilization because we can do it and we’ve seen biological species within an epsilon neighborhood that cannot.