I think it’s basically just anthropocentrism to even assume “the great filter” exists.
It’s anthropocentric to assume that the way we exist is somehow a higher or ultimate state of life.
Civilization has exists for 5000, maybe 10000 years.
Out of hundreds of billions of years. Or hundreds of millions of years of complex life.
Why assume at all that civilization is a thing life should tend towards?
Put this another way. Why havent we detected kangaroos on every continent? They’re clearly the ultimate grass grazing form for Australia. Hopping is an extremely efficient form of locomotion. We must suppose a “filter” exists that prevents hopping as the dominant mode of locomotion for grazing animals on other continents.
I think it’s basically just anthropocentrism to even assume “the great filter” exists.
It’s anthropocentric to assume that the way we exist is somehow a higher or ultimate state of life.
Civilization has exists for 5000, maybe 10000 years.
Out of hundreds of billions of years. Or hundreds of millions of years of complex life.
Why assume at all that civilization is a thing life should tend towards?
Put this another way. Why havent we detected kangaroos on every continent? They’re clearly the ultimate grass grazing form for Australia. Hopping is an extremely efficient form of locomotion. We must suppose a “filter” exists that prevents hopping as the dominant mode of locomotion for grazing animals on other continents.