Aliens on Earth? What if there are no other cognizant life forms?

Posted on May 8, 2012 in Aliens on Earth, Global Law Politics | 0 comments

The US government just admitted to spending millions on attempting to discover or prove that alien exist or more precisely, have visited the Earth.  Other than a few fuzzy photos, there has been no evidence produced.

Here’s a risky thought:  “What if there are no other cognizant life forms anywhere?” What if humankind is the lone sentient or cognitive species in the galaxy?

“Sentient” is defined as beings or species that build things, communicate by writings or phones or possess similar technological capacity. Trees and plants, for example, are certainly living organisms and an integral part of the Earth’s construct. However, it is generally accepted that trees are not sentient.  In a like manner, animals, bacteria, birds are clearly alive and they learn. However, what have they built?

Life has existed on Earth in millions of different forms over the last 600,000,000 years. Technical developments have only come to pass in the last few thousand years.  Expand this to what we can see and hear.  There is nothing.  No evidence off the Earth.  What if there are no sentient life forms other than Homo sapiens anywhere else in the galaxy? What if technological developments exist only  here on Earth? There is no empirical proof of any technology other than what humans have developed.  What if there are no comparable alien intelligences or gods? What if there is only the now and humankind and what can actually be seen, touched, felt and hear?

The possibility exists that humankind may be a supreme species. Maybe humankind alone is responsible for itself. Such a permutation would certainly impact on our rationalizations, our values, our view of existence. What would be our purpose if we were the lone sentient species in our cognizable universe.  It is an interesting thought.