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Yes Bojan;
Thanks for the 'heads-up' on the Fermi paradox.
The Wiki article seems to cover all of the human perspectives on exo-life that I, (for one), can imagine, or have encountered in my travels.
I guess we all fit into one, or more, of the headings when we're wrangling on this topic.
There are other dimensions to the scale/probability problem as well.
For instance: the DNA information paradigm. What is the probability that the order in DNA, eventuates over time, given that entropy increases over time? Also, what is the probability that the methodical functions of the 'cellular machinery', (necessary for replication etc), could develop in the way that it has ?
If there were an answer to these questions, it would be truly mind blowing when you lay this on top of the Scale of the Universe. The two 'probability scales may actually end up being of similar orders of magnitude, and we might find that it does actually require an almost infinite scale 'laboratory', (ie: universe), for an instance of life to come about !!
I think its difficult for the human brain to cope with these probability scales.
Cheers
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