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		runeks on Nov 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indisti... What makes you think this? In dreamful sleep, we exist at a level of consciousness where what we observe is indistinguishable from ourselves. And yet we rarely notice.

ajkjk on Nov 21, 2016 [–]

I expect that we would continuously be an intelligent race that performs observations and does science the entire time, even as we evolve to unrecognizable forms, so, we'd just "think about it" as it's happening.

There's no analogy with dreaming.

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