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Originally posted by wlcm
Do we one day transcend the current boundaries and restart in a brand new one?
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I can't think of an answer that isn't more than a little fantastic. I've thought something along the lines of your question--that the Universe is an incubator, and intelligent species successful enough to thrive on an interstallar scale either trascend or are brought to transcendence--or we are inside a pocket that makes intelligent life invisible to us, and perhaps makes us invisible to them as well. Arthur C. Clarke once said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so anything is possible, no matter how unlikely. And with that missing puzzle piece of the paradox I mentioned, even Occam's Razor can't really reduce the problem to Earth as the sole container of intelligent life in all the history of the Universe.
(For the uninitiated, the Razor is popularly described as "All things being equal, the simpler solution is the more likely of the two," although it's a bit more complicated than that in practice.)