tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8191069176037841286.post3754080542161135007..comments2013-02-15T23:00:40.783-05:00Comments on Alternate Minds: Of Anti-minds and the SwarmPete Mandikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952230864825600992noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8191069176037841286.post-12119675105228366762012-09-17T05:11:54.834-04:002012-09-17T05:11:54.834-04:00I think your reasoning is correct: only mind can d...I think your reasoning is correct: only mind can detect mind. A dumb mechanism isn't capable of doing this. Unles an intelligence has programmed succh device to detect the spreading influences of intelligence. Its like Munchhausen who pulls himself out of the moor defying gravity. Impossible. For the sf story Swarm the conclusion is that the unintelligent species that lives in the planetoids surrounding Betelgeuse is themselves designed or altered by intelligent beings. <br /><br />I have also a strong feeling that live also can't excist without interference from intelligence from "elsewhere".....Hanneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13894753011084254362noreply@blogger.com