Text Ticker: When Intelligent and Natural Design Collide
At WIRED, beautiful images from airplanes accompany reflections with a SETI scientist on information theory and the criteria for intelligence.
In the end, he said, information theory provides no perfect formulation by which evidence of intelligence may be deciphered. Until little green men demand passage to our leaders in person, we might have no choice but to gather information, accept ambiguity and rely on intuition.
While you're at it, have a look at How to Worship, a storybook of mine about the meanings of seeing the world from above. If you don't want to buy the book, email me and I'll send you a free pdf version. [go!]
